I’ve been spending a great deal of time thinking about our government, Snowden revelations, mass surveillance, data breaches and the like. During the interim—I also burned through two startups. It has not been an easy road on a financial basis—if anything, it has taught me to question what is happening in the world around me.
Due to a recent (real life) nightmare that I had, I felt compelled to blog (after an almost three month hiatus from writing...
Read MoreRecently, I became aware of a prodigious stealth-mode Twitter botnet that contain upwards of 3 million user accounts, alongside two other botnets that total 100,000 bots. Kudos goes to SadBotTrue security researchers who first disclosed botnet findings at their blog earlier this week.
According to SadBotTrue, this particular botnet is the most active and most undetectable botnet in existence on Twitter today.
SadBotTrue states at their blog:
Read MoreAll the accounts are protected...
I cam spy on you—from weaknesses in camera firmware to creepy messages delivered through baby surveillance systems—the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to present countless challenges as it hovers above the crossroad of security and privacy.
Recently I discovered Reddit poster Jenn & Tonic (J&T). Having initially purchased and returned a Netgear Arlo surveillance cam, J&T can now spy on the new owner—via the use of a previously associated Arlo account.
For the purpose of this article:...
Read MoreRepublished from the now defunct Norse Corporation blog: May 2015.
The 0Day marketplace was a busy beaver this weekend. I’ve been waiting and watching Sphinx for the past 10 days to see if the 0Day admin would verify this new threat:
On Sunday evening, Sphinx, a new variant of the Zeus banking trojan was admin-verified. Sphinx is coded in C++ and based on ZeuS source code and operates fully through the Tor network using a Tor hidden service...
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