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FBI put out a PSA warning that deepfakes and stolen personal information are being used by nefarious actors to apply for jobs in the U.S.
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New: A former Canadian government employee just agreed to plead guilty to working for ransomware gang that hacked hospitals through the pandemic.
US cops ~$28 million when they took him into custody.
court docs: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco
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Researchers at have located 900k+ exposed #Kubernetes instances across the internet, using similar scanning tools and search queries employed by malicious actors.
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Stardust said it would roll out end-to-end encryption so it would “not be able to hand over any of your period tracking data” to the government. After we reached out, Stardust quietly removed any mention of end-to-end encryption from its privacy policy.
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New: Period tracker Stardust rocketed to the top of Apple's app store over the weekend after Roe v. Wade was overturned. But the app shares the phone number of users (who give it when signing up) to a third-party analytics firm Mixpanel. w/
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A new ~this week in security~ is out:
• Roe v. Wade privacy fallout
• EU hearing scorches NSO
• Google notifies Hermit spyware victims
• Strava exposed Israeli spies
• Harmony hack loots $100M
📨 this.weekinsecurity.com
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Multiple tech companies are saying they'll pay for employees to travel for abortions. (Employees who probably already have resources to do so unlike many Americans.)
I've heard zero about how these companies intend to protect user data from being used to criminalize abortion.
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Abortion is a fundamental right for all women. It must be protected. I wish to express my solidarity with the women whose liberties are being undermined by the Supreme Court of the United States.
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The decision is a landmark-of the worst kind. Constitutional rights recognized and relied upon can now be eliminated.
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We're obviously quite inured to these things from the last six years, but it kind of seems like a historical bombshell that Republican Members of Congress were seeking presidential pardons for their actions.
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New: National security agencies will not be able to turn down job applicants solely on the basis of past marijuana use under a provision in the intelligence authorization act that unanimously passed the Senate Intel Committee this week behind closed doors
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Google said Hermit's iOS spyware app used a zero-day flaw which was known at the time of discovery to be actively exploited. Hermit used Apple enterprise developer certificates to bypass the App Store, which Apple says it has now revoked.
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This follows Lookout's research into Hermit (lookout.com/blog/hermit-sp) which first attributed the spyware to RCS Lab. Google now has more details on the iOS version of the spyware, which abuses enterprise certificates to sideload outside of the app store.
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New: Google is notifying Android users whose devices have been compromised by Hermit, a government-grade spyware used against victims in Italy and Kazakhstan.
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It's a rainy, fall asleep on the couch kinda day.
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"As of September 17, 2019, we are no longer using phone numbers or email addresses collected for safety or security purposes for advertising."
Here's Twitter's blog post:
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Twitter's started to notify users that it used email addresses and phone numbers, which users submitted for setting up two-factor, for delivering targeted advertising. Twitter also settled with the FTC to the tune of $150 million. Background from 2019: tcrn.ch/31Y7uIt
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PSA: your internet-controlled hot tub can probably be hacked 
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New: I spoke with some of the hackers & dissidents waging a covert war of sabotage against the authoritarian regimes of Belarus's Lukashenko & Russia's Putin. They are setting a new model for revolutionary groups. Here's their story:
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Really nice new attack on the encryption used in the MEGA file sharing service, from and co-authors. Article by .
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Spyware attacks on activists and dissenters are on a rise. Recently, a big exposé revealed how Indian activist Rona Wilson’s laptop was hacked by the Pune Police. People and organizations in India and overseas worked for years to make this happen, and it's a huge win. A thread.
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In reply to very specific and concrete questions by the representative of #NSOgroup refuses to give specific answers and merely repeats the same empty pitch. Protecting their dodgy customers instead of the victims of illegitimate spying
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Everyone tuckered themselves out.
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This is wild. "Username and password credentials of some of the Twitter accounts that promoted Ocugen were available in publicly accessible databases on the code-sharing site GitHub" ... "anyone could have been in control of the suspicious Twitter accounts." 👀
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Exclusive: A network of Twitter accounts hyped stock in Ocugen, a biotech firm, when it was seeking FDA approval to test a COVID-19 vaccine, per @AletheaGroup.
It looks like a pump-and-dump scheme coordinated through >100 bots + sockpuppet accounts.
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Flagstar Bank, one of the largest in the U.S., has disclosed its *second* data breach of customer Social Security numbers in two years. This time it's another 1.5 million SSNs.
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Squash is fine just hanging out on the blanket. Making good progress!
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Day 9: This is where Cabbage comes up with all her best ideas.
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A new edition of ~this week in security~ is out:
• India police hacked activists, planted evidence
• Microsoft faces heat over patch mess
• Interview with FBI on cyber takedowns
• Rsocks proxy (botnet!) seized
📩 this.weekinsecurity.com
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When the head of US Cyber Command said recently that US conducted offensive cyber ops to support Ukraine, many assumed he meant destructive attacks that risk pulling US into war. So I spoke w/ 2 former lawyers for the command to see what he really meant
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In the past week, I listened to recordings of more than 80 internal TikTok meetings about Project Texas, the company’s effort to restrict access to US user data.
TLDR: TikTok has been having a really hard time shutting down Chinese access to this info.
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New: Researchers say a modular mobile spyware that can target Android and iOS devices, dubbed Hermit, has been used by governments — Italy, Syria, and most recently in Kazakhstan.
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New: DOJ has seized and shut down Rsocks, a popular web proxy service allegedly run by Russian cybercriminals, which allowed buyers to proxy through a botnet made up of millions of hacked computers.
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Remarkable progress for two relatively unsocialized kittens who were just five days ago so repulsed by the sight of a human that they spent their first three days inside the fabric of our armchair.
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Day 5: the kittens have decided the large British man who occasionally gives them food isn't so bad after all and have designated his presence as acceptable.
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Pune police are tied to a hacking campaign that appears to have framed and jailed human rights activists.
What the actual fuck.
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Eric "Are you out of your f**king mind?" Herschmann has the most chaotic background during the Jan 6 hearing. There's a giant panda(?) next to a wall-mounted baseball bat inscribed with the word "JUSTICE".
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