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- UK police arrest 18-year-old in connection to Playstation and XBox attack
- Major ASUS router bug
- Local users can take full control without a password
- Biggest issue there seems to be DNS hijacking
- Legislative attacks on infosec profession and encryption
- Anti-hacking law language ambiguous “according to owner”
- Obama is said to agree with Cameron, but it’s complicated
- Evidence of a plot is different than outlawing encryption
- There’s other talk about it being illegal to see hack data
- French reporting 19,000 DoS attacks since the shootings
- Anonymous is going after ISIS and others
- An attack on free speech is an attack on Anonymous
- Google releases another Windows flaw that they didn’t fix
- Verizon API vulnerability exposes customer email addresses
- Issue was with a mobile API used by Android devices
- Allowed him to retrieve peoples’ emails and send emails as them
- On whether we should trust the FBI regarding the Sony attack
- We now find out the attribution came from a previous NSA hack
- It’s hard to criticize without data
- This doesn’t mean they did it, or that the FBI is always right, or that they should always be trusted
- It means be cautious when you don’t have any information, and the person you’re criticizing has all of it
- Free speech and the Paris attacks
- Where is the line for free speech?
- I think it comes down to safety and taste
- You can’t yell fire, and art matters
Quote of the week
- No one is as happy as they seem on Facebook, as depressed as they seem on Twitter, or as employed as they seem on LinkedIn.
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Notes
- I have a consolidated InfoSec news feed (here) that I use as a source for headlines.