Cyberlaw

Kevin Mitnick

R.I.P. Kevin Mitnick, 1963–2023

Kevin is Free: Hackers’ hacker dies, aged 59 ...
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AI and Microdirectives

Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws. All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions for how to comply with the law, sent directly by your government ...
detection-as-code, misconception

House Panel OK’s Bill to Ban Law Enforcement from Buying Data from Brokers

Legislation that would ban law enforcement and federal agencies from buying consumer data from data brokers without a warrant is on its way to the full House ...
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Biden Admin. Adds ‘Mercenary Spyware’ Firms to Ban List

Biden Admin. Adds ‘Mercenary Spyware’ Firms to Ban List

European cousins Intellexa and Cytrox essentially banned by Commerce Dept. — Predator/ALIEN not welcome in U.S ...
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industrial Colonial Pipeline critical infrastructure OT Utilities

Russia Expected to Increase Critical Infrastructure Attacks

Russia’s war strategy increasingly involves cybersecurity, with the country expected to ramp up attacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine and countries that are members of NATO, according to Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service ...
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OPSEC FAIL: US Military Email Going to Mali — via Typo

OPSEC FAIL: US Military Email Going to Mali — via Typo

MX Mixup: Russian-allied government can intercept “highly sensitive information”—because there’s no “I” in .ML ...
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Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records

Interesting forensics in connection with a serial killer arrest: Investigators went through phone records collected from both midtown Manhattan and the Massapequa Park area of Long Island—two areas connected to a “burner ...
PRC flag

China Breaches Microsoft Cloud — Spied on US Govt. Email

Storm-0558 Brewing: Multiple Microsoft failures cause data leaks at State and Commerce depts., plus 23 other orgs ...
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Solar array, ground mounted in field, under blue sky

Contec SolarView: Critical Bug Unpatched After 14 MONTHS

PV OT: VPN PDQ! 9.8 CVSS known since May 2022—but still exploitable on 400+ net-connected OT/ICS/SCADA systems ...
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