Month: February 2018
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week some of the people who randomly picked Russia out of a hat for attribution might be right, Cowboy Sessions is the new Sheriff of Cybertown, election hacking might get worse, the banana phone from The Matrix is coming back, aliens could hack the planet, and much more… Russian to… Read more…
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No, postcards won’t solve our Russian interference problem
Originally published in Engadget. Denial is not a river in Egypt. 1 / 5 Illustration by D. Thomas Magee We just learned all the ways Russian propaganda agents fooled American social media companies, thanks to the recent indictments of Russian nationals by Team Mueller. After years of these companies forcing us to adhere to their… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week Google dropped Microsoft 0day (again), hacking culture got painted with the Nazi brush, the White House pretended to be mad at Russia, Facebook made Trump happy, BuzzFeed searches for the pee tape, the RSA 2018 agenda is here, I have praise for female cybersecurity writers, and much more… How… Read more…
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How security became more important than convenience
Originally published in Engadget. It’s still the reverse for Equifax, though. 1 / 2 Illustration by D. Thomas Magee Since the dawn of infosec, the belief that we users are a group of dullard cattle who blindly trade our own security for convenience at every turn has been trumpeted by the stewards of IT and… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week the Olympics may have been hacked by a country, CNET peddles Verizon’s SIM-locking BS, the CIA thinks NYT and Intercept are smoking Russian crack, the DHS came out swinging at NBC News, some very unsettling questions about Facebook surveilling employees and journalists are emerging, and much more… The most… Read more…
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Facebook patents tech to determine social class
Originally published in Engadget. Might want to unfriend some poor people before clicking on that credit score ad. 1 / 2 Illustration by D. Thomas Magee We've got great news this week for nation-state employees tasked with using social media to spark a class war in previously stable democracies! Facebook is patenting technology to decide… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Greetings cyberfriends! This week, Equifax is handed a ‘get out of jail free card,’ two guys got busted making an ATM spew cash, the US nabbed a Russian hacker via his iCloud account, Lauri Love won’t be extradited to the US after all, Hacking Team has a Saudi investor, and much… Read more…
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Strava’s fitness heatmaps are a 'potential catastrophe'
Originally published in Engadget. You can run (or bike), but you can’t hide from big-data irresponsibility. 1 / 6 Illustration by D. Thomas Magee The 2018 cybersecurity race to the bottom is off to an exciting start. First out of the gate is Strava — now widely known as the "social network for athletes" —… Read more…