Exploring the intersection of security, technology, and society—and what might be coming next...

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News

• Internet disinformation service for hire [ Link ]
• Rob Fuller (@mubix) has found a way to pull credentials from a locked machine using a USB dongle and Responder [ Link ]
• Yelp starts new bug bounty with HackerOne, offers up to 15K per bug [ Link ]
• Foreign hackers supposedly access two state election databases, according to the FBI [ Link ]
• New attacks discovered on SWIFT banking system. Few details given, but money was reportedly lost [ Link ]
• 8 Brands of home routers compromised and used to build a botnet that launched https DDoS attacks against websites [ Link ]
• FTC releases guidelines for smartphone safety with rental cars [ Link ]
• Crowdstrike reports that Russia’s COZY BEAR, or APT29, launched cyberattacks against some of their think tank customers who were doing research on Russia [ Link ]
• Brazzers porn site compromised, nearly 1 million accounts leaked [ Link ]
• Federal government warming to idea of using more “hackery” tactics to attract and train cybersecurity personnel, including using CTFs and hiring people who have used cannabis [ Link ]
• Google Analytics now providing automated analysis and recommendations [ Link ]
• Google will soon start punishing sites’ rankings for showing annoying ad popups [ Link ]
• Apple partnering with Sony to bring Apple Pay to Japan [ Link ]
• SolarCity looks to replace the roofs of 5 million homes with solar cells [ Link ]
• Elisa just hit 1.9Gbps on a 4G network. Finland and Germany launching 1Gbs 4G networks. Finland in two years, Germany in 1. [ Link ]
• Europe announces that all scientific papers should be free by 2020 [ Link ]
• Majel Barrett’s voice may be coming to Siri and other places [ Link ]

Ideas

• Gaming as Microservices [ Link ]
• When to use Vulnerability Assessments, Pentests, Bug Bounties, and Red Teams [ Link ]
• From Apps to APIs [ Link ]
• If you’re using Android, make sure it’s a Nexus  [ Link ]

Treasure

• The a16z podcast on microservices [ Link ]
• ARTLAS: Realtime logs analyzer [ Link ]
• How to Create Secure Random Numbers in Various Languages [ Link ]
• Fffound — a brilliant collection of art images [ Link ]

Inspiration

• There’s nothing so useless as doing efficiently what should not be done at all. ~ Peter Druker

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Notes

1. The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM.