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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Centcom: US war zone troops were targeted through commercial location data
Canada signals flexibility as tech giants fight surveillance bill, Canadian lands 30 years for child sextortion scheme, Romanian sentenced to 56 months for Oregon gov't, other hacks, Germany and France fight EC's ban of Huawei on cyber grounds, much more
UK spy chief warns of escalating Russian cyber aggression
India's banking and government institutions are testing Mythos, Charter confirms breach claimed by ShinyHunters, Play ransomware gang hit Mike Lindell's MyPillow, Fake UK visa portal exposes passports and selfies, CrowdStrike shuttered C2 for Glassworm botnet, much more
White House seeks $9 billion AI chip surge for US spy agencies to tap AI models
Russian penetration of US systems during SolarWinds breach was deeper than we knew, Mythos Preview users found more than 10k severe vulnerabilities, Iranian hackers were behind the LA transit system breach, Former execs plead guilty to tech support fraud scheme, much more
Losing control of the systems meant to secure society - Best infosec long reads 5/23/26
France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches, AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio, Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle, Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention, Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety and accountability