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Security News for the Week Ending June 4, 2021

Freaking Ooops: Us Nuke Bunker Security Secrets On Public ‘Net Since 2013 Details of some US nuclear missile bunkers in Europe, including secret duress codewords have been exposed publicly on the Internet. Journalists discovered it by using simple search queries. The information was on training flashcards, which should not have been public. It includes “intricate […]

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Security News for the Week Ending May 21, 2021

Teslas can be Hacked via a DRONE Without any Owner Interaction Researchers have shown how they can hack a Tesla from a done without the owner even being aware that he or she is being attacked and particularly, without the owner being involved in the takeover of the car. The attack, called TBONE, was reported […]

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Cybersecurity News for the Week Ending May 14, 2021

If You Thought the FTC Was Toothless Before, Just Wait I always complained that the FTC’s penalties were way too meek. Now I understand why, but it has just gotten MUCH worse. 99.99% of the blame goes to Congress. Initially, the FTC could not bring lawsuits against businesses at all. All they could do was […]

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Colonial Pipeline – the Saga and the Fallout

The saga of the Colonial Pipeline hack continues. Colonial says that there is fuel flowing through the pipeline again but it will take time to get all of the tributary lines operational. But more importantly, many sources are reporting that Colonial paid $5 million in cryptocurrency to the Russian hackers on Friday, contradicting earlier reports […]

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Apple Airtags – A Low Cost Surveillance Tool for Good or Evil

Ever see a scene in the movies where the cops (or the bad guys) plant a tracking device on someone and later catch the person doing something? Ever hear stories about an ex stalking his or her former partner? Well Apple just made that ‘affordable’. Probably too affordable. And folks have already tested it. Like […]

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Cybersecurity News for the Week Ending April 30, 2021

Signal Tells Cellebrite to Back Off Signal is the encrypted message app created by white hat hacker Moxie Marlinspike and his team. Cellebrite is the Israeli company that cracks cells phones for law enforcement. Cellebrite claims to be able to crack Signals messages (it is not clear if they are breaking the crypto or have […]

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