Tag: security

• Security researcher hacks AirTag; modifies NFC URL for Lost Mode

  May 10, 2021

  A security researcher was successful in hacking the AirTag by reverse-engineering its microcontroller. This is apparently the first time an AirTag was hacked or, say, “Jailbroken”. https://the8-bit.com/airtags-hacked-for-first-time/ more ›

• U.S. Intelligence Report Warns of Global Consequences of Social Fragmentation

  April 11, 2021

  A previous version of the report, released by the Obama administration, highlighted the risk of a pandemic and the vast economic disruption it could cause — a prescient prediction in… more ›

• Analyzing Solorigate, the compromised DLL file that started a sophisticated cyberattack, and how Microsoft Defender helps protect customers

  December 22, 2020

  We, along with the security industry and our partners, continue to investigate the extent of the Solorigate attack. https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/12/18/analyzing-solorigate-the-compromised-dll-file-that-started-a-sophisticated-cyberattack-and-how-microsoft-defender-helps-protect/ more ›

• Microsoft removed 18 Azure AD apps used by Chinese state-sponsored hacker group

  September 26, 2020

  Microsoft said today that it removed 18 Azure Active Directory applications from its Azure portal that were created and abused by a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-removed-18-azure-ad-apps-used-by-chinese-state-sponsored-hacker-group/ more ›

• Data lakes: where big businesses dump their excess data, and hackers have a field day

  October 23, 2019

  Machines and the internet are woven into the fabric of our society. A growing number of users, devices and applications work together to produce what we now call “big data”.… more ›

• The Ringification of Suburban Life

  September 29, 2019

  Across the US, consumers are canvassing their communities with a new type of device that’s changing civic life. Camera-equipped doorbells and other home surveillance devices, made by companies like Ring,… more ›

• Digital Crackdown: Large-Scale Surveillance and Exploitation of Uyghurs

  September 9, 2019

  Over the last several years, numerous reports have emerged regarding the shocking treatment of Uyghurs, a Muslim minority ethnic group that makes up a large part of the Xinjiang Uyghur… more ›

• Essay: The street as platform

  September 3, 2019

  I was recently asked to comment on ‘the street of the future’; a response for a quango responsible for the built environment and a government department responsible for transport, roads… more ›

• History of 5-Eyes – explainer

  August 4, 2019

  During the second world war intelligence officers from Britain and the US would crouch over bulky radio transmitters listening in on crackling enemy exchanges. In the years since then, communications… more ›

• Advanced mobile surveillanceware, made in Russia, found in the wild

  July 28, 2019

  Researchers have discovered some of the most advanced and full-featured mobile surveillanceware ever seen. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/advanced-mobile-surveillanceware-made-in-russia-found-in-the-wild/ more ›