Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Security news

Not exactly a Security Smorgasbord post, but interesting and important stuff.

Lawrence has an post about a new sort of phishing scam pretending to be a Paypal invoice for a Walmart purchase.

There’s a new phishing scam making the rounds. I’ve received examples of this one twice myself over the last week, and since it’s a lot more sophisticated and polished than the average email phishing scam, I think it’s worth taking a look at.

You should go read - this is important.

Twitter's ex-Chief of security says that the company is entirely uninteresting in knowing just how many bots make up the Twitter user population.  What makes this really big security news is that the ex-Chief is none other than Mudge, one of the original L0pht guys.  He has big, big stature in the security community.  I don't know how this will play out, but this will be enormously damaging to Twitter's share price.  But it's hard to see this Justice Department go after the Twitter execs who helped the Democrats so much over the last few years.  

The Metaverse sucks, and you cannot have any privacy there.  I expect you already know that.

Sumd00d hacks his Hyundai car to change the smart screen software.  What uber 31337 'sploit does he use to find Hyundai's secret encryption key?  Google.  For realz.  Angels and Ministers of Graqce defend us.

4 comments:

Divemedic said...

This is why I have been maintaining that the trend in car sales of charging a subscription fee for things like heated seats or four wheel drive will spawn a new industry of people jailbreaking their cars.

danielbarger said...

Twatter....along with Gargle, FaecesBook and almost all the other Big Tech companies are OWNED by the left. Everything they do is in service to the lefts agenda. There is nobody in a position of authority who intends to do a damn thing about their ongoing abusive misconduct. It's all one giant incestuous relationship.

McChuck said...

Ah, The Register's BOFH column. I had forgotten about them.

Jonathan H said...

This reminds me of your picture of a gate on a road with tracks around it since there is no fence...