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On May 26, I told city officials in Florence, Ala. their networks were hacked by a ransomware gang. Thanks, they said. We dodged a bullet. On Jun 5, ransomware was deployed. The city now says it'll pay ~$300k ransom to keep its citizens' data off the Web. krebsonsecurity.com/2020/06/…
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WARNING: Install Latest Windows 10 Updates Immediately!
Microsoft today released patches for a severe Windows #CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability (CVE-2020-0601) that was discovered by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Read more: thehackernews.com/2020/01/wa…
#PatchTuesday #infosec
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my wife: babe what are you doing
me: playing the sims 4
wife: oh cool. can i see
me: no
wife: why
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The #FiveEyes government coalition advocated for lawful access to #encrypteddata and threatened to follow "other measures" if tech companies don't find ways to comply. By @MT_Heller bit.ly/2oHGhYB
Air Canada app breach affects 20,000 cbc.ca/news/business/air-can…
Police are now asking Google for data about all mobile devices close to certain crimes tcrn.ch/2po1CGG via @techcrunch
Instagram submits to Russia censor's demands bbc.com/news/technology-4307…
Don’t use Huawei phones, say heads of FBI, CIA, and NSA ow.ly/mE4K30ioW9F
China Denies That It Gifted the African Union an HQ Building Stuffed Full of Surveillance Devices ow.ly/ReNX30i5UpA
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My daughter went to a laser quest birthday party yesterday. She set her username to “a girl”. I asked why she didn’t pick ‘bloodstone’ or ‘skull-crusher’ and she said, “So every time I zapped a boy they’d know it was a girl that took them out.”
Proud Dad.
Blast from the past, Mariposa. xitter.gq/briankrebs/status/9417…
Former Mariposa botnet code author and Darkode crime forum founder is CTO of hacked Bitcoin mining firm NiceHash, which was robbed of ~$52M in BTC on Dec. 6. What we know so far about the investigation krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/…















