Blog Digest December 2022

Blog Digest December 2022

Cybersecurity Winter is coming

Marc Ruef
by Marc Ruef
on December 29, 2022
time to read: 5 minutes

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Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl’s incurable cancer

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Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chief

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Darknet markets generate millions in revenue selling stolen personal data, supply chain study finds

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Data breach at Social Blade confirmed. Hacker offers to sell database on underground website

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Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?

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Exoskeletons qualify for direct disability compensation in Germany

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Gen Z ‘shocked’ to learn their ‘digital footprint’ could ruin job prospects

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Hacking on a plane: Leaking data of millions and taking over any account

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How AI-generated text is poisoning the internet

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How to spot AI-generated text

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How to Use Mastodon, the Social-Media Platform Blocked by Elon Musk’s Twitter

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Is ChatGPT a ‘virus that has been released into the wild’?

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LastPass users: Your info and password vault data are now in hackers’ hands

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Metaparasites: The cybercriminals who rip each other off

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OpenAI’s attempts to watermark AI text hit limits

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OpwnAI: AI That Can Save the Day or HACK it Away

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Pass-the-Challenge: Defeating Windows Defender Credential Guard

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Patch Tuesday’s Impact on Cybersecurity Over the Years

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Ransomware: Which Industries Are Most Likely to Pay

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Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites

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The Autocrat in Your iPhone

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The Cybersecurity Takeaway from Twitter’s Verification Chaos

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The lines between gaming and gambling have begun to blur, state researchers

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The secrets of automation-kings in bug bounty

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Twitter bans posting of handles and links to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and more (Updated)

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Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account and bans links to Mastodon servers

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Ukrainian army issues instructional video telling Russians how to surrender to a drone

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What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained

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What Happens When the Metaverse Enters Your Attack Surface?

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Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games

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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