WEEKLY CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER NO: 230

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Aug 8, 2022 7:21 am

1- S3 Ep94: This sort of crypto (graphy), and the other sort of crypto (currency!) [Audio + Text]

Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and anywhere that good podcasts a…

2- Friday Squid Blogging: Evolution of the Vampire Squid

Short article on the evolution of the vampire squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. …

3- Microsoft Zero-Days Sold and then Used

Yet another article about cyber-weapons arms manufacturers and their particular supply chain. This one is about Windows and Adobe Reader zero-day exploits sold by an Austrian company named DSIRF. There’s an entire industry devoted to undermining all of our security. It needs to be stopped. …

4- Apple’s Lockdown Mode

I haven’t written about Apple’s Lockdown Mode yet, mostly because I haven’t delved into the details. This is how Apple describes it: Lockdown Mode offers an extreme, optional level of security for the very few users who, because of who they are or what they do, may be personally targeted by some of …