• Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup #14

    "I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed." - Bruce Scheneier Iranian cyberspies leave training videos exposed online One of Iran's top hacking groups (APT35)… read more »
  • Animal Kingdom: new experiments of computer aided composition

    In the past weeks, I've already written about some funny experiments that i made first with music and machine learning, then with music composed using pseudo-random algorithms. In both cases, results are some interesting, but strange, melodies that I finished… read more »
  • Sara Morrison: how SDKs, hidden trackers in your phone, work

    In a good article on Recode, Sara Morrison made a useful overview on trackers hidden in smartphone SDKs. Some highlights: Your phone is the ideal tool for advertisers and data brokers, both as a means of collecting your information and… read more »
  • Weekly Tech Roundup #13

    "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems." - Linus Torvalds Apple, Biden, Musk and other high-profile Twitter accounts hacked in crypto scam A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers who used… read more »
  • SIGRed: a 17-year-old wormable vulnerability in Windows DNS server

    Last Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday addressed a 17-year-old vulnerability impacting Microsoft Windows DNS Server, tracked as CVE-2020-1350 and dubbed "SigRed" by ChekPoint's researchers. The issue received a severity rating of 10.0 on the CVSS scale and affects Windows Server versions 2003… read more »
  • Will Cathcart: the future of digital communication and privacy

    The CEO of WhatsApp talking about the future of communication and privacy? Yes, in "virtual" TED-Talk! Will Cathcart is the Head of WhatsApp. He joined Facebook in 2010 and has worked on a number of Facebook’s products, becoming Vice President… read more »
  • Weekly Privacy Roundup #13

    "Privacy is not a luxury in America: it is a right - one that we need to defend in the digital realm as much as in the physical realm." - Chelsea Manning Maine Broadband Privacy Law Passes Early First Amendment… read more »
  • Using .lnk files as zero-touch downloaders

    In a good post on SANS ISC InfoSec Forum, Jan Kopriva shows how windows explorer shell links could be used by an attacker in order to download malicious payloads. Probably anyone who has used any modern version of Windows is… read more »