With sources indicating that North Korea’s Lazarus Group were behind the recent cryptocurrency theft from Bybit, it’s worth revisiting the BBC’s series of podcasts, “The Lazarus Heist“. Originally produced in two sets for 2021 and 2023, these podcasts are both… Read More
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U.S. Commerce Department Tightens Exports of Hacking Tools
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has released an interim final rule that establishes controls on the export, reexport, or transfer (in-country) of certain items that can be used for malicious cyber activities. Here is a… Read More
Ukraine picks up six hackers behind Clop ransomware
It’s been a rough spell for hackers, one was just extradited from Mexico to face charges in California for a DDoS attack on the city of Santa Cruz. Now six members of a group responsible for the Clop ransomware were… Read More
Passwordstate was Compromised by Supply-Chain Attack
As many as 29,000 users of Passwordstate password manager downloaded a malicious update that extracted data from the app and sent it to an attacker-controlled server, Click Studios told customers. Ars Technica reported that this was a supply-chain attack. Click… Read More
Clap for Kano’s Camera Kit at CES 2018
Kano‘s mission is to encourage people, particularly children, to see computers not as unchangeable appliances but as tools to be made, shaped, coded and shared. Their kits plug together bits, boards, buttons and cables to make individual and personalised computers…. Read More
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Hijacking a Drone
Drones are unmanned flying vehicles which are controlled by operators from thousands of miles away. They are used extensively in Afghanistan to track the Taliban’s activities. There has been increase talk among law enforcement in the United States that using… Read More
Battle For The Internet Looms
With the perpetually refreshed glut of information available on the Web, it’s rare to find a thoroughly researched, thoughtful and meaningful piece on – of all things – the State of The Internet. In the May issue of Vanity Fair,… Read More