Google's TAG publishes a report on commercial spyware, detailing ~40 vendors, and says global governments should take more aggressive steps to combat spyware
Twitter's natural heir is finally open to the public — and it has some big ideas for social networking Shane Huntley / The Keyword : Buying Spying: How the commercial surveillance industry works and w...
Google finds and helps patch a Zimbra Collaboration email server zero-day used to steal data from governments in Greece, Moldova, Tunisia, Vietnam, and Pakistan
It links the attacks to past Chinese APT activity, but does not formally attribute the attacks. — It also points out that Winter Vivern (suspected Belarus) also exploited this after a patch was rele...
After Apple voiced support for California's Right to Repair Act, a look at what's next for the movement, like tackling unsustainable designs and software locks
most notably getting longtime repair foe Apple to concede and support a bill in its home state of California—is that the new legal guarantees around repair ONLY address market competition. … X: @benlo...
Google patches a Chrome zero-day that was exploited by a commercial spyware vendor, just two days after Google's Threat Analysis Group informed the Chrome team
update now! Jai Vijayan / Dark Reading : Chrome Flags Third Zero-Day This Month That's Tied to Spying Exploits Austin Blake / iPhone in Canada Blog : Google Patches Chrome Zero-Day Exploited by Spywar...
Apple releases iOS 15.3.1, iPadOS 15.3.1, and macOS Monterey 12.2.1 to fix a WebKit flaw that may have been actively exploited, its third zero-day patch in 2022
Friday, February 11, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: BLKTRIANGLE Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Apple's latest update should fix MacBooks' battery drain issue Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : iPhone And iPad ...
Apple releases iOS 15.3.1, iPadOS 15.3.1, and macOS Monterey 12.2.1 to fix a WebKit flaw that may have been actively exploited, its third zero-day patch in 2022
Friday, February 11, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: BLKTRIANGLE Pieter Arntz / Malwarebytes Labs : Update now! Apple fixes actively exploited zero-day Ravie Lakshmanan / The Hacker News : Apple Re...
Internal messages detail Spotify's lax health content policy; the company told staff multiple Joe Rogan podcast episodes “didn't meet the threshold for removal”
just not that they are *designed* to cause death. Similarly, they allow podcasters to say wearing a mask is *ineffective*, just not that wearing masks will cause imminent, life-threatening harm.” http...
Apple releases iOS 14.8, watchOS 7.6.2, iPadOS 14.8, and macOS 11.6, which fix some CoreGraphics and WebKit flaws that defeated iOS “Blastdoor” protections
why it's critical for iPhone users Tweets: John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton : 🚨 UPDATE YOUR APPLE DEVICES NOW🚨 We caught a zero-click, zero day iMessage exploit used by NSO Group's #Pegasus spyware. Ta...
FireEye and networking company Pulse Secure say two China-linked hacking groups used a flaw in its VPN devices to target customers in the US defense industry
Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities — Summary Department of Homeland Security : Emergency Directive 21-03 — Mitigate Pulse Secure Product Vulnerabilities CNN : Suspected Chinese h...
Substack's decision to pay certain writers to write on the platform is an editorial one as leaders decide what kind of writing they want to support
They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative — I think of myself as having decent critical faculties … Tweets: @annaleen , @jason , @jefferson1simon , @digifiend ...