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Security News Update for the Week Ending February 24, 2023

European Governments Want to be Able to Snoop on ALL of Our Communications As is usually the case, their excuse it that “it is to protect the children”. They want to break encryption while sprinkling magic fairy dust to not break encryption (an impossibility) in an effort to force kiddie porn traders (now called child […]

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Google Working to Improve Android Hardware Security

As operating system vendors (Apple and Google) improve their security and make hacking their products more difficult, hackers are looking elsewhere for “ways in”. While users consider their phones a single computer, the reality is that there are whole bunch of computers under the hood. Processors for each radio in the phone such as the […]

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Attacks on (Critical) Industrial Infrastructure Increase as Defenders Struggle

In 2022 security companies that track these attacks saw a rise in the number and sophistication of attacks on critical infrastructure. They also saw the introduction of a malware toolkit with plugins to attack tens of thousands of control systems across every industry. Responders discovered, not surprisingly, that the vast majority (more than 75%) of […]

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Deep Fake Revenge Porn is Both Easy to Get and Impossible to Stop

Twitch streamers are notorious for going after other streamers. Not sure how that started, but it is a thing. Two weeks ago, Twitch streamer Brandon Ewing (aka Atrioc) was doing a live stream for his 318,000 followers and, supposedly, inadvertently showed his open browser tabs showing that he visited a website selling deep fake porn […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending February 10, 2023

If You Think the Chinese Balloon Incident is a Major Wake-up call … China has been spying on the US for decades. And we have been spying on them. Kind of like Spy vs. Spy in Mad Magazine when we were kids. If you think that the balloon gave China important information – above the […]

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