Blog Digest December 2020

Blog Digest December 2020

Cybersecurity Winter is coming

Marc Ruef
by Marc Ruef
time to read: 4 minutes

The scip Blog Digest is a monthly released summary of the most important, thrilling and crazy posts from the international blogosphere. While reading this digest it remains very easy to keep up to date with the events of cybersecurity and advanced technology. Follow our team on 𝕏 and the company on LinkedIn, to get the most recent news.

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‘It’s a free-for-all’: how hi-tech spyware ends up in the hands of Mexico’s cartels

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Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems

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Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021

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Amnesia: 33 vulnerabilities impact millions of smart and industrial devices

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An iOS hacker tries Android

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Bomb Robots: What Makes Killing In Dallas Different And What Happens Next?

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Cellebrite’s New Solution for Decrypting the Signal App

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Credit card stealing malware hides in social media sharing icons

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Daily Crunch: Hyundai acquires 80% stake in Boston Robotics

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Domestic IoT Nightmares: Smart Doorbells

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FAA lays out its Remote ID ‘license plate for drones’ requirements

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Foxconn hit with record-breaking $34 million ransom demand after cyber attack

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Hacker opens 2,732 PickPoint package lockers across Moscow

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Hackers are selling more than 85,000 MySQL databases on a dark web portal

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Hey Alexa what did I just type? Decoding smartphone sounds with a…

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How to turn your Xbox Series X/S into an emulation powerhouse

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IBM Uncovers Global Phishing Campaign Targeting the COVID-19 Vaccine Cold Chain

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InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place

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iPhone Pictures

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Nintendo Conducted Invasive Surveillance Operation Against Homebrew Hacker

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Researchers identify a new personality construct that describes the tendency to see oneself as a victim

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Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

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Samsung’s deleting ads that mocked Apple for not including a charger in the box

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SolarWinds’ shares drop 22 per cent. But what’s this? $286m in stock sales just before hack announced?

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Suspected Russian hackers spied on U.S. Treasury emails – sources

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The 7 Most Promising Government Led AI Solutions

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The year deepfakes went mainstream

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Vulnerability Descriptions in the New Version of the Security Update Guide

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What Explains the Decline of Serial Killers?

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Zodiac Killer cipher is cracked after eluding sleuths for 51 years

About the Author

Marc Ruef

Marc Ruef has been working in information security since the late 1990s. He is well-known for his many publications and books. The last one called The Art of Penetration Testing is discussing security testing in detail. He is a lecturer at several faculties, like ETH, HWZ, HSLU and IKF. (ORCID 0000-0002-1328-6357)

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