• My Weekly Roundup #141

    Cybersecurity Browser In The Browser (BITB) Attack This article explores a phishing technique that simulates a browser window within the browser to spoof a legitimate domain. For security professionals, the URL is usually the most trusted aspect of a domain.… read more »
  • My Weekly Roundup #140

    Cybersecurity Rewriting Romance Victim History: Common Truths and Falsehoods Told by Society Over the years I have worked with many people who track romance scams. I’ve spoken to analysts, psychologists, police officers, federal law enforcement, and most painfully: the victims.… read more »
  • My Weekly Roundup #139

    Cybersecurity Fake News of Cyber Attacks Fast-Spreads, as Conflict between Russia and Ukraine Escalates One of the most active players in the cyberspace during the war in Ukraine are hacktivists that support either Russia or Ukraine for ideological reasons. Those… read more »
  • My Weekly Roundup #138

    Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Cyclops Blink Cisco Talos is aware of the recent reporting around a new modular malware family, Cyclops Blink, that targets small and home office (SOHO) devices, similar to previously observed threats like VPNFilter. Ukraine calls for volunteer… read more »
  • My Weekly Roundup #137

    Cybersecurity Free Cybersecurity Services and Tools As part of our continuing mission to reduce cybersecurity risk across U.S. critical infrastructure partners and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, CISA has compiled a list of free cybersecurity tools and services to… read more »
  • My Weekly Roundup #136

    Cybersecurity Full Hancitor malware analysis Hancitor is a famous malware loader that has been in use for years since first being observed in 2015. A malware loader drops the actual malicious content on the system then executes the first stage… read more »
  • The History of Electronic Music, part 2: the Theremin

    For several years now I have been interested in electronic music, so I have decided to publish a series of brief articles in which I try to describe what in my view are decisive steps in the evolution of this… read more »
  • My Weekly Roundup #135

    Cybersecurity Cyberattack on News Corp, Believed Linked to China, Targeted Emails of Journalists, Others The attack, discovered on Jan. 20, affected units including The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and the U.K. Operation EmailThief: Active Exploitation of Zero-day… read more »