Risky Bulletin

A poorly patched bug is being exploited in Fortinet firewalls, hackers go after security testing environments, Jordanian police used Cellebrite against activists, and new Cisco and SmarterMail zero-days.



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Risky Bulletin: Improperly patched bug exploited again in Fortinet firewalls

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the rise of technologies that can undermine internet blackouts such as Starlink and its relatively new direct-to-cell service. Authoritarian internet shutdowns and disasters happen often enough that governments should think about how to take advantage of these new technologies rather than just reacting when crises arise.

They also discuss the nomination of General Joshua Rudd as head of NSA and US Cyber Command.

This episode is also available on Youtube.



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Canonical’s Snap Store hit by domain resurrection attacks, Russia will use AI to detect VPN users, Iranian hackers switch to Starlink during internet outage, and Greece arrests SMS blasters… by dumb luck.



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Risky Bulletin: Domain resurrection attacks come to Canonical's Snap Store

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about what information warfare even is, revisit a 30-year-old paper and examine why Western governments struggle with the concept.

This episode is also available on Youtube.



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What is Information Warfare by Martin Libicki


Human Rights in China


Leaked conversation on Youtube, in Mandarin


Rebecca Black, Friday

Germany seeks more hacking and surveillance powers for its intelligence service, Finland intends to criminalize the spreading of false information, patriotic “French” social media goes quiet during Iran’s internet outage, and hackers are extorting GrubHub.



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Risky Bulletin: Germany seeks more hacking and surveillance powers for its intel service