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Security News Bites for January 3, 2025

Feds Arrest US Solider in AT&T, Verizon+ Hacks This is NOT the Salt Typhoon hack, but rather the Snowflake hack, as best I can tell. The details are very sparse, but in some cases, the targets are the same. Cameron John Wagenius was arrested in Fort Hood, TX. after he was indicted recently. He, apparently, […]

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Security News Update for December 6, 2024

North Koreans Attacking Crypto With Social Engineering Because … that is where the money is. The FBI says they are using highly tailored, difficult to detect social engineering campaigns. In spite of the so-called technical expertise of these targeted companies these attacks are effective. Credit: The Record August Ransomware Attack Causes Stoli Vodka to File […]

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Add Another Challenge for the Next President

The United States has historically had a “challenging” supply chain. It has, for at least decades, depended on supplies from counties that are either not stable or not friendly or neither. While we have worked to try to REDUCE that dependency, we are very far from eliminating it. Yesterday the President ratcheted up the curbs […]

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As Two Undersea Fiber Internet Lines Cut, Focus is on China, Russia

I bet this shows up as a surprise to exactly no one. There are at least 600 undersea fiber lines that connect the world. While these two going away at roughly the same time is annoying, the Internet is quite resilient. However, depending on WHICH fiber lines are cut, the problems can be more severe. […]

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Security News Update for October 4, 2024

China Starts Flying Homegrown (Likely Cloned) US, EU Airplanes For those people who don’t think that China’s theft of foreign intellectual property is a problem, China has started delivering Chinese made COMAC C919 passenger jets. These compete with the Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320 neo. China’s big three airlines have ordered a hundred planes […]

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The CrowdStrike Meltdown – The Rest of the Story

CrowdStrike is a major vendor of user workstation security software used by many Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. On Friday, they caused a major meltdown of Windows workstations across the globe. CrowdStrike insists that this was simply a software update gone wrong and maybe that is true. But there are plenty of conspiracy theorists […]

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