On Top of Everything Else, US Postal Service Had a Bunch of Buggy Apps
Plus Zoom Offers 2FA, TikTok is Out of Time, Old Dutch Guys Hacked Trump's Twitter Account in 2016
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Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 1/17/26
The untouchable hacker god who destroyed psychotherapy patients, AI prompt injection is an unsolvable problem, Deepfakes are messing up Canada's justice system, What the hack of Russia's Unified Military Registry revealed, The US military needs to accelerate its tests of AI trustworthiness
A database with 149 million usernames and passwords was exposed on the internet
Venezuelan nationals who stole cash from ATMs using malware will be deported from US, FBI asked Microsoft to unlock encrypted laptops, Under Armour is investigating massive data breach, Tech investors want the US government to probe S. Korea's treatment of Coupang following data breach, much more
Acting CISA head got grilled on mass firings at the agency
EU's CIRCL launches GCVE system, DeFi project EVM was exploited for $6m, Attackers exploit patch bypass for FortiGate flaw, Cisco fixes Unified Communications and Webex Calling RCE flaw, Mass spam wave emanates from unsecured Zendesk support systems, much more
DOGE workers shared SSN data with outsiders, derailed DISA operations
UK launches national fraud reporting service, China blames Taiwan for cyberattacks, EU proposes freezing out Chinese tech suppliers, New Zealand launches Manage My Health breach probe, Curl ends its bug bounty program due to AI flood, Cloudflare fixes WAF flaw, much more