A Peek into the Fake Review Marketplace
July 13 2020A personal account of someone who was paid to buy products on Amazon and leave fake reviews. Fake reviews are one of the problems that everyone knows about, and...
Read moreChina is prohibiting squid fishing in two areas -- both in international waters -- for two seasons, to give squid time to recover and reproduce. This is the first...
Read moreEFF’s 30th Anniversary Livestream
July 10 2020It's the EFF's 30th birthday, and the organization is having a celebratory livestream today from 3:00 to 10:00 pm PDT. There are a lot of interesting discussions and things....
Read moreBusiness Email Compromise (BEC) Criminal Ring
July 10 2020A criminal group called Cosmic Lynx seems to be based in Russia: Dubbed Cosmic Lynx, the group has carried out more than 200 BEC campaigns since July 2019, according...
Read moreTraffic Analysis of Home Security Cameras
July 9 2020Interesting research on home security cameras with cloud storage. Basically, attackers can learn very basic information about what's going on in front of the camera, and infer when there...
Read moreHalf a Million IoT Passwords Leaked
July 8 2020It is amazing that this sort of thing can still happen: ...the list was compiled by scanning the entire internet for devices that were exposing their Telnet port. The...
Read moreIoT Security Principles
July 7 2020The BSA -- also known as the Software Alliance, formerly the Business Software Alliance (which explains the acronym) -- is an industry lobbying group. They just published "Policy Principles...
Read moreThiefQuest Ransomware for the Mac
July 6 2020There's a new ransomware for the Mac called ThiefQuest or EvilQuest. It's hard to get infected: For your Mac to become infected, you would need to torrent a compromised...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Strawberry Squid
July 3 2020Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
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