Amazon’s Ring Will Pay the FTC $5.8 Million for Passing Around Your Videos
Amazon will pay the FTC $5.8 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of violating user privacy with its…
May 2023
Amazing Spider-Man #26 Does Ms. Marvel Dirty
Ever since early leaks confirmed Marvel’s plans to kill off one of its most influential new creations of the 21st…
Ways to Help Cybersecurity’s Essential Workers Avoid Burnout
To support and retain the people who protect assets against bad actors, organizations should create a more defensible environment.
Gigabyte firmware component can be abused as a backdoor
Researchers warn that the UEFI firmware in many motherboards made by PC hardware manufacturer Gigabyte injects executable code inside the…
‘Slack Isn’t Safe:’ Abortion Groups Protest Slack HQ for Beefed Up Encryption
A coalition of over 90 organizations protested outside of Slack’s San Francisco headquarters Wednesday, driving mobile billboards around Slack’s offices…
The Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars Is Ghosting NASA Scientists
The Ingenuity helicopter paved new ground (air?) in April 2019, when it communicated data of its first flight—the first powered,…
How The Flash Plays With Some Man of Steel Expectations
In Zack Snyder’s 2013 film Man of Steel, General Zod comes to Earth looking for a Kryptonian he believes has…
May 31, 2023, Champlain Towers South Investigation Update: Second Warehouse Will Allow New Phase of Testing
On May 11, 2023, the MDPD and the NCST finished moving a portion of evidence retrieved from the Champlain Towers…
Cybercriminals Targeting Apache NiFi Instances for Cryptocurrency Mining
A financially motivated threat actor is actively scouring the internet for unprotected Apache NiFi instances to covertly install a cryptocurrency…
Serious Security: That KeePass “master password crack”, and what we can learn from it
Here, in an admittedly discursive nutshell, is the fascinating story of CVE-2023-32784. (Short version: Don't panic.)