Friday Squid Blogging: Blobs of Squid Eggs Found Near Norway
Divers find three-foot “blobs” — egg sacs of the squid Illex coindetii — off the coast of Norway. As usual,…
Cybersecurity Experts to Follow on Twitter
Security Boulevard recently listed the “Top-21 Cybersecurity Experts You Must Follow on Twitter in 2021.” I came in at #7.…
NSA Discloses Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange
Amongst the 100+ vulnerabilities patch in this month’s Patch Tuesday, there are four in Microsoft Exchange that were disclosed by…
DNI’s Annual Threat Assessment
The office of the Director of National Intelligence released its “Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.” Cybersecurity is…
The FBI Is Now Securing Networks Without Their Owners’ Permission
In January, we learned about a Chinese espionage campaign that exploited four zero-days in Microsoft Exchange. One of the characteristics…
More Biden Cybersecurity Nominations
News: President Biden announced key cybersecurity leadership nominations Monday, proposing Jen Easterly as the next head of the Cybersecurity and…
Friday Squid Blogging: Jurassic Squid and Prey
A 180-million-year-old Vampire squid ancestor was fossilized along with its prey. As usual, you can also use this squid post…
Backdoor Added — But Found — in PHP
Unknown hackers attempted to add a backdoor to the PHP source code. It was two malicious commits, with the subject…
Google’s Project Zero Finds a Nation-State Zero-Day Operation
Google’s Project Zero discovered, and caused to be patched, eleven zero-day exploits against Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Windows, and iOS. This…
WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support
According to Wired, Signal is adding support for the cryptocurrency MobileCoin, “a form of digital cash designed to work efficiently…