Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Malware for the Moon?

The Air Force is seeking proposals for technologies "for operations far beyond geosynchronous Earth orbit, near the moon's orbit: payloads for providing space domain awareness from the lunar surface, lightweight sensors for space-based space domain awareness, and methodologies for orbit determination and catalog maintenance in cislunar space.

They don't usually leak this kind of information.
So if you have these skills, give them a call.
For those of us who can't understand more than 2 words of the above (me): ask someone to tell you what Space Force is up to.


A New Jersey hospital 'had to' pay a fee after they got hit with ransomware.
Because, you know, backups are soooo hard.



Chinese e-commerce site lightinthebox.com operated in the sharing spirit: it shared 1.3TB of data, including server logs, user data, and more.


Snatch and Zeppelin ransomware recap.



Plundervolt: stealing secrets by 'undervolting'


The city of New Orleans, Louisiana, got themselves some ransomware. The mayor declared a state of emergency. It appears to be the threat actors behind Ryuk. The city is still working to recover data from the attack.

Hmmm.....  the city's emergency preparedness campaign is managed by the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. From the way the article is worded, the city and Homeland Security don't think much of backups.


A WhatsApp bug could have let anyone crash WhatsApp of all group members.
I have one word for you: Signal.


The writers of Nginx were interrogated at gunpoint, in their homes, at 7am because a former employer claims it was developed while one of them worked there.


VISA warns that hackers are scraping card details from gas pumps.




LINUX


How to use the uniq command - a unique command.

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