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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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Study Says AI Can Guess Crypto Seed Phrases in 0.02 Seconds – Sort Of

Since we are almost at New Year’s eve, this post is a bit of a fun. AI knows all, right? 0.02 seconds, right? Well, not so fast. NFTEvening and Storible collaborated on a test to see how fast AI can figure out your seed phrase. First, what the heck is a seed phrase anyway? You […]

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Security News Update for December 27, 2024

Feds Sue JPMorgan, Wells, BofA Over Zelle Fraud Given the administration is changing next month and the new administration is not fond of rules that negatively impact business, I don’t know if this lawsuit will go anywhere, but the complaint said it took Zelle years to respond at all to Zelle fraud and in most […]

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Russian Tanker Accused of Severing Undersea Cables

In the ever escalating attacks against undersea critical infrastructure such as power cables, Internet cables and oil pipelines, the battle continues to heat up. You may remember the Nordstream pipelines between Russia and Europe that were disabled by explosions against the Nordstream 1 and 2 pipelines in 2022. Given the war in Ukraine and sanctions […]

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Security News Update for December 20, 2024

Amazon Delays Office 365 Rollout Due to Security Concerns Depending on whether you are an optimistic or pessimist, you can assume what Amazon’s intentions are. Likely this is about trying to convince potential customers that Amazon is secure and Microsoft is not. While there is probably some truth to that, I think there is more […]

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Microsoft Pushing Passkey and You Can’t Opt Out of Notifications

Passkeys are a replacement for passwords and, in general, are way more secure. They use encryption to validate who you are in a different way than HTTPS does. With passkeys, you don’t type in a password. Instead the website and your device create a digital handshake that only works from your device and with that […]

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