Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 7/29/23

How Signal became the go-to privacy app, LAC nations need cybersecurity support, Hunting down a Twitter scammer, Cyber insurers need capital access, Mass. push to ban cop facial recognition use Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of the best long-form infosec-related pieces we

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 7/29/23

How Signal became the go-to privacy app, LAC nations need cybersecurity support, Hunting down a Twitter scammer, Cyber insurers need capital access, Mass. push to ban cop facial recognition use

Senator Calls for Probes Into Microsoft's Handling of Chinese Spy Campaign

Gov't contractor MOVEit breach exposes info for up to 11m patients, Worm injected into old Call of Duty Game, CoinsPaid blames DPRK for hack, AI safety circumvented, Breached data for sale, much more

SEC Adopts Cyber Incident and Risk Management Reporting Rules

Russia sentences Group-IB founder to 14 years, FraudGPT tool emerges, China blames US for earthquake monitoring center attack, Blame for Alphapo theft pinned on DPRK's Lazarus, much more

White House Taps Coker for National Cyber Director Role

Oz court fines Meta $14m for privacy violations, Quinn Emanuel hit by cyber incident, 900K MikroTik RouterOS routers at risk, Cryptojacking spikes, Realst malware targets Apple computers, much more

Law Firm Must Turn Over Some Client Names to SEC That Were Compromised in Cyber Incident

Zero day used to breach Norwegian agencies, Dutch cops bust Genesis Market suspect, Lazarus is breaching Windows IIS to deliver malware, Spyhide secretly collects data on tens of thousands, much more

Chinese Espionage Campaign Could Extend to Other Microsoft Cloud Offerings

FISA court says FBI wrongfully searched database, Critical comms tech TETRA suffers serious flaws, Bitfinex hack launderers set to plead guilty, $31m was drained from Alphapo, much more

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 7/22/23

TheTruthSpy's web of fake sellers, China and Russia use intel agencies in cold war revisionism, Twitter's disinformation sewer, The 50-year crypto war, Video codec tool nails police abuse, more Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of the best long-form

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 7/22/23

TheTruthSpy's web of fake sellers, China and Russia use intel agencies in cold war revisionism, Twitter's disinformation sewer, The 50-year crypto war, Video codec tool nails police abuse, more

Chinese Hackers Accessed Email Accounts of US Ambassador to China, Assistant Secretary

AI leaders agree to voluntary security and transparency practices, Apple to pull services if UK's Snooper's Charter changed, DOJ revamps cyber-crypto crime team, GitHub warns of Lazarus campaign, more

Microsoft to Offer Pricier Tiers of Audit Logging for Free Following Chinese Spy Campaign

DPRK was behind JumpCloud hack, Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick dead at 59, DPRK stole $700 mil. in crypto last year, Norwegian mining outfit hit by ransomware, Data mining ban passes panel, much more

Commerce Department Adds Surveillance Firms Cytrox, Intellexa to Export Prohibition List

VirusTotal exposed 5,600 registered users' data, Google tests internet-free desktops for employees, Fin8 moves to ransomware, Bill bars feds and cops from using data brokers, much more