There is no cloud – it’s just someone else’s computer.

There is no cloud – it’s just someone else’s computer.

P.S. you can get the sticker here: https://www.redbubble.com/de/people/tamagothings/works/28066602-there-is-no-cloud?p=sticker 2,67 € for small 7,43 € for medium 11,13 € for large size (prices include Euro VAT — I am not associated with sticker sales, just saving you the search)   People often argue “you get the elasticity” and the “extra bandwidth at spikes”, and a “rich toolkit to pick…

ExoWarfare done lousy: Facebook löscht Milliarden Fake Accounts

ExoWarfare done lousy: Facebook löscht Milliarden Fake Accounts

(if you can identify them – its done badly)   24 MAY 2019 2,4 Milliarden monatlich aktive Nutzer hat Facebook im Geschäftsbericht für das erste Quartal 2019 gemeldet. Im selben Zeitraum löschte das Unternehmen 2,2 Milliarden Fake-Accounts. Das geht aus dem gestern veröffentlichten Community Standards Enforcement Report hervor. Und dabei erwischt Facebook längst nicht alle…

USMC: Marines want their phones and tablets to handle classified data

USMC: Marines want their phones and tablets to handle classified data

The Marine Common Handheld program will provide secure mobile computing at the tactical edge. (Lance Cpl. Harrison C. Rakhshani/Marine Corps)   The Marine Corps has selected several companies to bid on task orders that will allow warfighters to transmit secure on-the-move command-and-control and situational awareness data, including sending classified information through commercial smartphones and tablets.…

Reality Mining: How Mass Surveillance Works in Xinjiang, China

Reality Mining: How Mass Surveillance Works in Xinjiang, China

(Articles below updated last: 05 JUN 2019) ‘Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling and Monitoring Strategies (Synapsis; full report further below) New York, May 2, 2019 Chinese authorities are using a mobile app to carry out illegal mass surveillance and arbitrary detention of Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang region. The Human Rights Watch report, “China’s…

Dependency on Centralized Services: Massive Outage at SalesForce.com

Dependency on Centralized Services: Massive Outage at SalesForce.com

Salesforce Woes Linger as Admins Clean Up After Service Outage An accidental permissions snafu caused a massive outage for all Salesforce customers that continues to affect some businesses. After a massive service outage on Friday, software-as-a-service giant Salesforce restored partial access to its affected customers over the weekend, while admins continued with cleanup into Monday.…

Intel MDS Vulnerabilities: ZombieLoad, RIDL (Rogue In-Flight Data Load), Fallout, and Store-to-Leak Forwarding – affect almost every Intel chip since 2011

Intel MDS Vulnerabilities: ZombieLoad, RIDL (Rogue In-Flight Data Load), Fallout, and Store-to-Leak Forwarding – affect almost every Intel chip since 2011

Tech giants have published security advisories and blog posts in response to the Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities affecting most Intel processors made in the last decade. Remedy? The microcode updates, like previous patches, would have an impact on processor performance. The vulnerabilities are related to speculative execution and they can be exploited for side-channel…

North Korea: Bitten by Bitcoin Bug – New Dimension Lazarus Hacking

North Korea: Bitten by Bitcoin Bug – New Dimension Lazarus Hacking

A report from ProofPoint by Darien Huss   Executive Summary With activity dating at least to 2009, the Lazarus Group has consistently ranked among the most disruptive, successful, and far-reaching state-sponsored actors. Law enforcement agencies suspect that the group has amassed nearly $100 million worth of cryptocurrencies based on their value today. The March 20,…

Alibaba-backed, Chinese Gov-supporting facial recognition AI startup Megvii raises $750 million

Alibaba-backed, Chinese Gov-supporting facial recognition AI startup Megvii raises $750 million

One of China’s most ambitious artificial intelligence startups, Megvii, more commonly known for its facial recognition brand Face++, announced Wednesday that it has raised $750 million in a Series E funding round. Founded by three graduates from the prestigious Tsinghua University in China, the eight-year-old company specializes in applying its computer vision solutions to a…

Russia-linked Threat Group Turla Uses Sophisticated Backdoor ‘LightNeuron’ to Hijack Exchange Mail Servers

Russia-linked Threat Group Turla Uses Sophisticated Backdoor ‘LightNeuron’ to Hijack Exchange Mail Servers

The Russia-linked threat group known as Turla has been using a sophisticated backdoor to hijack Microsoft Exchange mail servers, ESET reported on Tuesday. The malware, dubbed LightNeuron, allows the attackers to read and modify any email passing through the compromised mail server, create and send new emails, and block emails to prevent the intended recipients…

New report explains how China thinks about information warfare

New report explains how China thinks about information warfare

The Chinese military has established a Network Systems Department, responsible for information warfare.   The Department of Defense’s annual report on China’s military and security developments provides new details about how China’s military organizes its information warfare enterprise, an area that has been of particular interest to U.S. military leaders. In 2015, the People’s Liberation…

A World First: Israel Retaliates To A Cyber-Attack With Immediate Physical Action – Wipes Out Hamas Cyber HQ (Incl Personnel)

A World First: Israel Retaliates To A Cyber-Attack With Immediate Physical Action – Wipes Out Hamas Cyber HQ (Incl Personnel)

GAZA, PALESTINE – 2019/05/05: Smoke rising after an Israeli air raid on homes in Gaza City during the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israeli army that began two days ago.   The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a physical attack on Hamas in immediate response to an alleged cyber-assault. The IDF hit a…

Summary: US Feds, Europol, and German BKA Bust Up Dark Web “Wall Street Market”

Summary: US Feds, Europol, and German BKA Bust Up Dark Web “Wall Street Market”

The now-defunct Wall Street Market (WSM). Image: Dark Web Reviews. Criminal complaint and arrest warrants for: TIBO LOUSEE, 22, from Kleve, also known as (“aka”) “coder420,” aka “codexx420” JONATHAN KALLA, 31, from Bad Vilbel, aka “Kronos” KLAUS-MARTIN FROST, 29, from Stuttgart, aka “TheOne,” aka “The_One,” aka “dudebuy” (collectively known as “The Administrators”) MARCOS PAULO DE…