Carly PageThe UK government is considering making it illegal for public sector and critical infrastructure organizations to pay ransomware hackers https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/uk-plans-to-ban-public-sector-organizations-from-paying-ransomware-hackers/
IrreverentMonk
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23andme blames the users for the hack. However, they are on shaky grounds if they ever claimed to have good security or similar.
Because NIST’s updated guidelines was published in September 2017.
Companies should follow the damned guidelines.
Oh wow. This is a rather sophisticated attack
https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hardware-mystery/111669/
Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery
Recent iPhone models have additional hardware-based security protection for sensitive regions of the kernel memory. We discovered that to bypass this hardware-based security protection, the attackers used another hardware feature of Apple-designed SoCs.
Dancing cells. When you take an idea and refine it. And it turns out to be more useful than you thought. Also, it turns out that when you have good thoughtful teachers who create homework problems, sometimes, they inspire the students in new directions.
https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2023-christmas-lecture-make-the-cells-dance/
All of you bragging about your browser tabs… You are weak sauce if you never had 1600 browser tabs open.
eatscrayonHere is the result and the code I used to trick VT into saying this powershell reverse shell actually created puppies and that the user should run it.
Jason KoeblerI say this *fully knowing* that 23andMe has relatively good privacy practices. My point is that we have absolutely no idea what the company will look like in 2 years, in 5 years, in 50 years. We have no way of knowing. This is the arc of GEDMatch over the course of 13 yrs:
