1. EFF announces: “Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users—which is utterly untrue. The very next line of the announcement is the actual news: Amazon’s Ring has announced that it will no longer facilitate police's warrantless requests for footage
1. LockBit continues to evolve—who or what is LockBit and how are they evolving? LockBit is a ransomware-as-a-service provider—the group builds ransomware tools, and sells those tools (and the support needed to successfully use the tools) to threat actors. LockBit’s tools are prolific, but being prolific in
Welcome to your shift change, reports from the off-going watch to the oncoming on anything interesting in privacy, security, or intelligence. 1. Google’s Threat Analysis Group says Russian APT COLDRIVER is evolving at the top of the Pyramid of Pain from credential harvesting to delivering its first custom malware.
Welcome to your shift change, reports from the off-going watch to the oncoming on anything interesting in privacy, security, or intelligence. 1. Microsoft warns: be careful, that journalist could be an Iranian cyber spy trying to infect your network! If you don’t know who Mint Sandstorm is, or APT
Welcome to your shift change, reports from the off-going watch to the oncoming on anything interesting in privacy, security, or intelligence. 1. If you are a business hoping to pass-the-cost of privacy harms to your insurer after collecting biometric information without the consent of the people you are collecting from:
Welcome to your shift change, reports from the off-going watch to the oncoming on anything interesting in privacy, security, or intelligence. 1. The Markup’s next suggestions for easy-to-implement personal privacy protections? Get a burner phone number—from Google! If you need to go a bit further than a burner
Welcome to your shift change, reports from the off-going watch to the oncoming on anything interesting in privacy, security, or intelligence. 1. Kaspersky Lab did not attribute the malware campaign dubbed “Slingshot” to the United States, but “current and former US intelligence officials” seem happy to… What indicators drive the
Welcome to your shift change, reports from the off-going watch to the oncoming on anything interesting in privacy, security, or intelligence. 1. ExTwitter blames the SEC’s account takeover on the SEC not using multi-factor authentication. This should be embarrassing for everyone involved, but it’s the US government so
Welcome to your shift change, reports from the off-going watch to the oncoming on anything interesting in privacy, security, or intelligence. 1. Russia hacks Ukraine, burns access to a major intelligence asset, and Ukraine…hacks back. Russia did this : Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile network operator, was knocked offline by
Welcome to your shift change, reports from the off-going watch to the oncoming on anything interesting in privacy, security, or intelligence. 1. Licensing authorities use government authority to get your personal info, and then sell it. But don’t worry, not to marketers, just anyone else. One politician in Indiana
Welcome to your shift change, reports from the off-going watch to the oncoming on anything interesting in privacy, security, or intelligence. 1. A lot of ink was spilled discussing the impact of the Russian hack of Ukraine’s Kyivstar (oh hey, Sandworm) but if you are the Russians, and you’
2024 01 05 Welcome to shift change, reports from the off-going watch to the oncoming on anything interesting in privacy, security, or intelligence. 1. Lawyers and law firms have an ethical responsibility to protect their clients data. In other news, Orrick experienced a breach… Lawyers are terrible risk managers, this