Blog Digest January 2021

Blog Digest January 2021

The new Cybersecurity Year has just begun

Marc Ruef
by Marc Ruef
on January 28, 2021
time to read: 5 minutes

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Adobe Flash Player reaches end-of-life

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Adobe Flash Shutdown Halts Chinese Railroad for Over 16 Hours Before Pirated Copy Restores Ops

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Authorities plan to mass-uninstall Emotet from infected hosts on April 25, 2021

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Back to School

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Be Careful When Using Images Grabbed Online In Your Documents

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Cory Doctorow: Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor

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Deep dive into the Solorigate second-stage activation: From SUNBURST to TEARDROP and Raindrop

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Early warnings of COVID-19 outbreaks across Europe from social media

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Hackers can clone Google Titan 2FA keys using a side channel in NXP chips

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Joker’s Stash, the internet’s largest carding forum, is shutting down

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Jumbled-up sentences show that AIs still don’t really understand language

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Making Clouds Rain :: Remote Code Execution in Microsoft Office 365

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Malware Victim Selection Through WiFi Identification

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New campaign targeting security researchers

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NHTSA wants Tesla to recall 158,000 Tegra 3-equipped vehicles

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Nissan source code leaked online after Git repo misconfiguration

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Now It Can Be Told: How Neil Sheehan Got the Pentagon Papers

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Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters

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Parler website partially returns with support from Russian-owned technology firm

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Remediation and Hardening Strategies for Microsoft 365 to Defend Against UNC2452

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Robinhood clients say platform has removed GameStop and AMC, and is only allowing holders to sell

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Split XSS

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Stimulating brain pathways shows origins of human language and memory

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SUNSPOT: An Implant in the Build Process

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The 432-year-old manual on social distancing

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The Biden administration’s AI plans: what we might expect

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Trump orders assessment of security risks of Chinese drones

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We wouldn’t be able to control superintelligent machines

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WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years, Actually

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Windows 10X: Everything we know so far

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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