SN 1038: Perplexity's Duplicity - Malicious Repository Libraries
CISA's Emergency Directive to ALL Federal agencies re: SharePoint.
NVIDIA firmly says "no" to any embedded chip gimmicks.
Dashlane is terminating its (totally unusable) free tier.
Malicious repository libraries are becoming even more hostile.
The best web filter (uBlock Origin) comes to Safari.
The very popular SonicWall firewall is being compromised.
>100 models of Dell Latitude and Precision laptops are in danger.
The significant challenge of patching SharePoint (for example).
A quick look at my DNS Benchmark progress.
Does InControl prevent an important update.
An venerable Sci-Fi franchise may be getting a great new series.
What to do about the problem of AI "website sucking"
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SN 1037: Chinese Participation in MAPP - Why Signal is Leaving Australia
A follow-up to the SharePoint server patch mess.
How Russia arranges to spy on other country's local embassies.
"Dropbox Passwords" manager app is ending in October.
Signal will leave Australia rather than help spy.
YouTube deploys viewing history age-estimation heuristics.
Chrome adds clever lightweight extension signing to prevent abuse.
A domain registrar is coming close to losing its rights.
A TP-Link router that doesn't encrypt its configuration.
What is "TruAge" and might it be useful for age verification.
An update on "Artemis".
With U.S.-China tensions on the rise, should Chinese security companies receive weeks of advance notice of forthcoming Microsoft flaw patches?
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SN 1036: Inside the SharePoint 0-day - Is Our Data Safe Anywhere?
Brave randomizes its fingerprints.
The next Brave will block Microsoft Recall by default.
Clorox sues its IT provider for $380 million in damages.
6-month Win10 ESU offers are beginning to appear.
Warfare has significantly become cyber.
Allianz Life loses control of 125 million customers' data.
The CIA's Acquisition Research Center website was hacked.
The Pentagon says the SharePoint RCE didn't get them.
A look at a DPRK "laptop farm" to impersonate Americans.
FIDO's passkey was NOT bypassed by a MITM after all.
Is our data safe anywhere?
The UK is trying to back-pedal out of the Apple ADP mess.
Meanwhile, the EU resumes its push for "Chat Control".
Microsoft fumbled the patch of a powerful Pwn2Own exploit
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SN 1035: Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Outage - Bypassing Passkey Protections
Bypassing all passkey protections.
The ransomware attacks just keep on coming.
Cloudflare capitulates to the MPA and starts blocking.
The need for online age verification is exploding.
Microsoft really wants Exchange Servers to subscribe.
Russia (further) clamps down on Internet usage.
The global trend toward more Internet restrictions.
China can inspect locked Android phones. Use a burner.
Web shells are the new buffer overflow.
An age verification protocol sketch.
What Cloudflare did to create an outage of 1.1.1.1
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SN 1030: Internet Foreground Radiation - The NPM Repository is Under Siege
An exploited iOS iMessage vulnerability Apple denies?
The NPM repository is under siege with no end in sight.
Were Comcast and Digital Realty compromised? Don't ask them.
Matthew Green agrees: XChat does not offer true security.
We may know how Russia is convicting Telegram users.
Microsoft finally decides to block two insane Outlook file types.
40,000 openly available video camera are online. Who owns them?
Running SpinRite on encrypted drives.
An LLM describes Steve's (my) evolution on Microsoft security.
What do we know about the bots that are scanning the Internet?
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