Blog Digest August 2021

Blog Digest August 2021

These are the heated Cybersecurity Weeks

Marc Ruef
by Marc Ruef
on August 26, 2021
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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38 million records exposed onlineincluding contact-tracing info

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AlphaBay Marketplace Re-emerges

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Apple explains how iPhones will scan photos for child-sexual-abuse images

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Attackers use Morse code, other encryption methods in evasive phishing campaign

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Chinese hackers disguised themselves as Iran to target Israel

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Disgruntled ransomware affiliate leaks the Conti gang’s technical manuals

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Don’t overthink it: Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot is a joke

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Extortion Payments Hit New Records as Ransomware Crisis Intensifies

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Flying in the Dark: Hospital AI Tools Aren’t Well Documented

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Gen Z LinkedIn Is Full of Parodies and Snark

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Here’s another free CA as an alternative to Let’s Encrypt!

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How AI Prevents Fatigue After Data Breaches

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HTTP/2: The Sequel is Always Worse

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Introducing ‘Known Distributors’

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Marines Train With Handheld Swarming Drones That Can Also Be Fired From 40mm Grenade Launchers

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Master Faces That Can Bypass Over 40% Of Facial ID Authentication Systems

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Microsoft’s Cloud PCs debut – priced between $20 and $158 a month

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Moderna’s mRNA HIV Vaccine Is About to Start Human Trials

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NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon

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Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech

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Pharmacist busted for selling COVID vaccine cards online for $10 each, feds say

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Ransomware Gangs and the Name Game Distraction

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Scandal, Spyware, and 69 Pounds of Weed

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Secret terrorist watchlist with 2 million records exposed online

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T-Mobile confirms fifth data breach in three years

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The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices

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Turns out all you need to gain admin privileges on Windows 10 is to plug in a Razer mouse

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Why Is There A Surge In Ransomware Attacks?

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Your Facebook Account Was Hacked. Getting Help May Take Weeks Or $299

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Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google

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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