Stefan Frei

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Cyber security expert, pentester, speaker & tech enthusiast. Tame complexity 4 security. Alum RWRI-13, @Accenture, @Swisscom, @Secunia, NSS Labs, ISS X-Force
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Excited to announce my new flight tracking platform. https://theairtraffic.com

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TheAirTraffic

From me today: NOTAM, which crashed today, is a bloated, long overrun system that pilots hate and is the evolution of something the Navy used to warn ships in the 1860(!). Hardly a surprise for it to fail:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/faa-notam-system-crashed-target-reforms-rcna65272
NOTAM system that crashed had been target of reforms

The U.S. aviation warning system that crashed for more than an hour Wednesday traces back its origins to ocean-faring ships and has been under continuous

NBC News
Web Hackers vs. The Auto Industry: Critical Vulnerabilities in Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce, Porsche, and More https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/
Web Hackers vs. The Auto Industry: Critical Vulnerabilities in Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce, Porsche, and More

During the fall of 2022, a few friends and I took a road trip from Chicago, IL to Washington, DC to attend a cybersecurity conference and (try) to take a break from our usual computer work. While we were visiting the University of Maryland, we came across a fleet of electric scooters scattered across the

Sam Curry | Web Application Security Researcher

Microsoft discovered a vulnerability in macOS that can let attackers bypass application execution restrictions imposed by Apple's Gatekeeper security mechanism.

The bug, dubbed "Achilles," could be used by malware and other threats to gain initial access to a device and increase the success rate of attacks on macOS.

Apple addressed the bug in macOS 13 (Ventura), macOS 12.6.2 (Monterey), and macOS 1.7.2 (Big Sur).

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-achilles-macos-bug-lets-hackers-bypass-gatekeeper/

Microsoft: Achilles macOS bug lets hackers bypass Gatekeeper

Apple has fixed a vulnerability that could be leveraged to deploy malware on vulnerable macOS devices via untrusted applications capable of bypassing Gatekeeper application execution restrictions.

BleepingComputer

Shortly after TechCrunch contacted Support King's CEO for comment, SpyTrac’s website went offline with a message saying the “product is temporarily not available.”

Then, shortly after we published this piece, Support King's website also went offline.

Here's the story. https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/17/support-king-ftc-spytrac/

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