Crims punish Wired subscribers by publishing personal info • The Register - The current leak is centered around readers of Wired magazine. The miscreants published 2.3 million emails, which had the names of 285,000 subscribers, 108,000 home addresses, and 32,000 phone numbers.
Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email address has been exposed in a data breach - Use this. Sign up your family. Use unique passwords in a password manager.
Give 3-5 sentences or bullets about who you are, how long you’ve been doing the relevant skill and a 1-2 sentence explanation of what you’re talking about.
Make this relatable. Tell a story, so the audience can connect with your problem. Ask a question, have you ever had X happen? Tell us /why/ we should care
Recently a friend pointed me to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract to help understand the idolatry/worship of Trump, MAGA, and the American government.
Its worth reading if you get a moment. Book 4, chapter 8 discusses the idea that a society requires a sort of idolatry called the “Civic Religion” to exist to hold people into a cohesive society.
For years, I’ve tried to come up with a normal and sane way to manage money that didn’t involve complicated technical solutions (usually with a high price tag…I’m trying to save money!). I’ve tried everything. YNAB, Mint, GNUCash and everything in between.
Finally I settled on the 3 Accounts Method of my own design.
Ransomware crooks search for ‘insurance’ ‘policy’ right away • The Register - Researchers reviewed 3 years of ransomware forensics and found threat actor SOPs usually involve searching for “insurance” in company documents. If found, ransoms are around 2.8x the average. If there’s a double extortion attempt, the ransom is around 5.5x’s higher.
Wyden: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon weren’t notifying senators of surveillance requests | TechCrunch - In the letter, Wyden, a longstanding member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that an investigation by his staff found that carriers were not notifying senators of legal requests — including from the White House — to surveil their phones. A report last year by the Inspector General, revealed that the Trump administration in 2017 and 2018 secretly obtained logs of calls and text messages of 43 congressional staffers and two serving House lawmakers, imposing gag orders on the phone companies that received the requests.
Hackers scam Coinbase users and ransom data for $20M • The Register - Coinbase said that at no point during the compromise could the attackers have accessed customers’ funds, and confirmed the sources of the data were insiders bribed to steal information on behalf of the extortionists. The company said the data does not include passwords or private keys, but depending on the use, the following details of its customers may be compromised:
Microsoft ends Authenticator password autofill, moves users to Edge - App will stop storing passwords. Users have until August 1st to move passwords to another option.
FBI: End-of-life routers hacked for cybercrime proxy networks - Threat actors are breaking into edge devices, notably Linksys and Cisco EoL routers, and adding them to residential proxy botnets.
This years RSAC was a strange experience. AI and Quantum saturated the expo floor, while talks ranged from IT to OT and everything in between. And weird political overtones stifled the environment.
Regardless of the weirdness, I decided to hit the expo floor and find the weird, the cool, and the special. And I was successful! Two different companies jumped out at me. One, Oasis offered an actual use case for quantum while Sepio offered a new endpoint security product.
Pharmacist accused of spying on women using work, home cams • The Register - Pharmacist spent nearly a decade installing malware on coworkers PCs, including remote web cam viewers and keyloggers. Pharmacist is currently employed at another healthcare system and is not jailed. While the employer is being sued for failing to protect their infrastructure and employees.