Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 10/7/23
How Intellexa sold spyware to Egypt, How phone phreakers created Apple, How one writer lost $31,000 in a pool-related BEC scam, The best password manager, PCLOB's view on Sec. 702
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Allies warn of cyber divide as US firms gatekeep powerful Mythos AI
Goldman Sachs is working closing with Mythos to protect itself, UK's AISI tested Mythos which excelled over other models, Bain & Co. was easily exposed by pentesters, Kraken suffered two insider security incidents, EU to abandon Chinese inverters, much more
ShinyHunters hits Rockstar Games, threatens data dump after cloud breach
Basic-Fit data breach exposes data on 1m+ members, Operation Atlantic disrupted $45m pig butchering network, Hackers exploited Hyberbridge flaw for $237k gain, Booking [dot] com suffered breach exposing customer details, UK finance regulators are assessing Anthropic's Claude Mythos, much more
Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 4/4/26
Sam Altman is no fan of AI safety, Quantum computing cryptography is now an engineering emergency, How a Mexican contractor became a surveillance powerhouse, Software is produced too fast to secure it, AI is more likely to empower cyber defense than offense, The eternal search for Satoshi Nakamoto
Feds summon Wall Street CEOs over fears Anthropic AI could supercharge cyberattacks
The FBI has accessed incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone after Signal app removal, Viktor Orbán secretly uses Webloc spyware in violation of GDPR, US Treasury launches cyber threat intel program for digital asset firms, Storm-2755 is stealing Canadians' paychecks, much more