Month: March 2021
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Cybersecurity Roundup, a marching band comprised entirely of sad trombones. This week: NSA wants to expand domestic surveillance, Parler ghouls want to burn down their Parler house, Russia basically knocked an Australian TV outlet out for saying mean things about Putin, researchers unpacked the genetic sequence for the… Read more…
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Pandemic Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Pandemic Roundup: an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday. This week: The ethics of vaccine line jumping; Miami’s Spring Break riots mark a superspreader event; cases increase in 21 US states; Brazil rations ICU beds and ventilators; symptomless transmission is… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Cybersecurity Roundup, in which we lament that Arkham Asylum deserves a better class of criminal. This week: Sidney Powell attempts a LOLJK defense against Dominion Voting Systems, two cool new cybersecurity newsletters have appeared, the most fucked sysadmin ever, DuckDuckGo vulns went public so it swiped at Chrome,… Read more…
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Pandemic Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Pandemic Roundup: an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday. This week: The B117 (UK variant) is creating spikes in the US, Brazil is collapsing, understanding what it means to be fully vaccinated, hackers are being ignored after reporting huge security… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Cybersecurity Roundup, a barren field where common sense security decisions can find no purchase. This week: Verkada hack caught Cloudflare spying on employees, Russia screwed up its Twitter meddling, the Microsoft Exchange mess worsens, Vice discovers SMS forwarders and celebrates with a stunt hack, the world’s oldest computer,… Read more…
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Pandemic Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Pandemic Roundup: an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday. This week: Bad news about UK and Brazil variants, a fourth surge is expected in the US, clarifying CDC’s post-vaccination guidance, cultists hold mass mask-burnings on state Capitol steps, Brazil is… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Cybersecurity Roundup, where we always regret to inform you. This week: Gab got hacked and hacked again; NYT repeated its cyber-reporting mistakes; Salesforce’s LinkedIn was hacked with a pointed anti-racism message; YouTube did a fascism, Facebook-style; and Apple is going after stalkers… and more. Get inbox delivery of… Read more…
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Pandemic Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Pandemic Roundup: an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday. This week: Brazil’s hospitals collapse as Brazil variant becomes a global threat, US expects to have vaccines for all adults by May, covid data grabs by corpos get worse, Texas and… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup: March 366th, 2021
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Cybersecurity Roundup, where infosec knows it has always been March. This week we found out that Gab has Parler-level bad security, SolarWinds (the company) has officially blamed an intern, LastPass was caught tracking users, infosec calls NYT on practically fabricating a major story, ICE is using Exquifax data… Read more…