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The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke

By Megan Greenwell β€” June 27th 2023 at 10:00
Fifty years ago, a fire ripped through the National Personnel Records Center. It set off a massive project to save crucial pieces of American historyβ€”including, I hoped, my grandfather’s.
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The US Senate Wants to Rein In AI. Good Luck With That

By Matt Laslo β€” June 26th 2023 at 11:00
With a poor track record on tech regulation, do lawmakers stand a chance?
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Leaked EU Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption

By Lily Hay Newman, Morgan Meaker, Matt Burgess β€” May 22nd 2023 at 19:23
In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is β€œimperative that we have access to the data.”
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SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack

By Kim Zetter β€” May 2nd 2023 at 10:00
The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.
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Iranian Hackers Launch Sophisticated Attacks Targeting Israel with PowerLess Backdoor

By Ravie Lakshmanan β€” April 25th 2023 at 13:04
An Iranian nation-state threat actor has been linked to a new wave of phishing attacks targeting Israel that's designed to deploy an updated version of a Windows backdoor called PowerLess. Cybersecurity firm Check Point is tracking the activity cluster under its mythical creature handleΒ Educated Manticore, which exhibits "strong overlaps" with a hacking crew known as APT35, Charming Kitten,
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S3 Ep129: When spyware arrives from someone you trust

By Paul Ducklin β€” April 6th 2023 at 14:57
Scanning tools, supply-chain malware, Wi-Fi hacking, and why there should be TWO World Backup Days... listen now!

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A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in Chinaβ€”and Won

By Amos Zeeberg β€” April 4th 2023 at 10:00
Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.
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World Backup Day is here again – 5 tips to keep your precious data safe

By Paul Ducklin β€” March 31st 2023 at 01:14
The only backup you will ever regret is the one you didn't make...

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Operation Soft Cell: Chinese Hackers Breach Middle East Telecom Providers

By Ravie Lakshmanan β€” March 23rd 2023 at 09:29
Telecommunication providers in the Middle East are the subject of new cyber attacks that commenced in the first quarter of 2023. The intrusion set has been attributed to a Chinese cyber espionage actor associated with a long-running campaign dubbedΒ Operation Soft CellΒ based on tooling overlaps. "The initial attack phase involves infiltrating Internet-facing Microsoft Exchange servers to deploy
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Chinese Hackers Targeting European Entities with New MQsTTang Backdoor

By Ravie Lakshmanan β€” March 3rd 2023 at 09:56
The China-aligned Mustang Panda actor has been observed using a hitherto unseen custom backdoor calledΒ MQsTTangΒ as part of an ongoing social engineering campaign that commenced in January 2023. "Unlike most of the group's malware, MQsTTang doesn't seem to be based on existing families or publicly available projects," ESET researcher Alexandre CΓ΄tΓ© CyrΒ saidΒ in a new report. Attack chains
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Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Crypto

By Paul Ducklin β€” February 6th 2023 at 21:53
Hear renowned cybersecurity author Andy Greenberg's thoughtful commentary about the "war on crypto" as we talk to him about his new book...

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