My Scribbles on security and whatever strikes my fancy . . .
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 …
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Recently, 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. Stealth …
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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 & …
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Republished 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: New Zeus Variant On Sunday evening, Sphinx, a new variant …
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Author note: This originally appeared at the defunct Norse Darkmatters blog during the summer of 2015: Exploring the Dark Recesses of the Deepweb (with minor edits). . . . Darknet Rabbit Hole I’ve been back down the rabbit hole, into the Darknet again and it’s been a hell of a hostile and …