JosephMenn

@JosephMenn@infosec.exchange

Washington Post cyber reporter. Author of Cult of the Dead Cow and Fatal System Error. Joseph.Menn@washpost.com, DM for Signal etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/joseph-menn/

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Four former CEOs of FinFisher, one of the most feared vendors of government spyware, have been indicted in Germany. I wrote about the company’s evolution in my cDc book. https://netzpolitik.org/2023/unsere-strafanzeige-staatsanwaltschaft-erhebt-anklage-gegen-finfisher/

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ECommerce is awesome. I looked at some new cars on my phone and it got so filled with tracking crapware that the browser stopped working and the phone got so hot I had to turn it off.

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Almost 300,000 “backdoor” searches of 702 data on Americans, including campaign donors and BLM protesters. Wow. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/19/fbi-digital-surveillance-misuse-jan6-blm/

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Jailed Saudi dissident sues Twitter under RICO act for spying by employees. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/16/twitter-rico-saudi-arabia/

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Wild tale about mysterious backing for Truth Social. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/13/trump-truth-social-loan-questions/

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Artificial intelligence is already making hacking attacks harder to stop. It’s going to get a lot worse. Free version of my latest: https://wapo.st/3BjTagM

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Exemplary disclosure by Dragos of ransomware attempt against it. More like this, please. No stigma. https://www.dragos.com/blog/deconstructing-a-cybersecurity-event/

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Security folks who tear down Twitter’s attempt at E2EE DMs, let me hear from you.

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Man who bragged of assaulting women found to have been telling the truth that time.

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Former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan sentenced to probation in data breach cover-up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/04/sullivan-sentencing-uber-executive/

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When you definitely have not broken any laws. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-classified-documents-house-gop-b2328141.html

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Propaganda from Russia, China and elsewhere gets a boost as Twitter drops media warning labels. GIFT LINK https://wapo.st/41un5yq

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The Guardian (who are themselves working out of a pub still due to a ransomware attack in December 2022) are reporting (a major IT supplier) have a "IT incident", staff have been told to not use VPN, and they are working with pen and paper since this morning. Thread follows. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/31/capita-it-systems-fail-cyber-attack-nhs-fears?CMP=share_btn_tw

JosephMenn,

@GossiTheDog I understand that Colchester is extremely disappointed. But is Barking mad?

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