December 2023

Tiny bits of space junk reveal their wherabouts when they collide, boffins hope 05/12/2023 at 11:47 By Katyanna Quach It’s hard to see, but when they rendezvous in orbit sparks ignite Tiny bits of space junk too small to track using current methods could be detected by a novel process using by ground-based radio dishes,

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New Threat Actor ‘AeroBlade’ Emerges in Espionage Attack on U.S. Aerospace 05/12/2023 at 11:06 By A previously undocumented threat actor has been linked to a cyber attack targeting an aerospace organization in the U.S. as part of what’s suspected to be a cyber espionage mission. The BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence team is tracking the

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Microsoft Warns of Kremlin-Backed APT28 Exploiting Critical Outlook Vulnerability 05/12/2023 at 11:06 By Microsoft on Monday said it detected Kremlin-backed nation-state activity exploiting a critical security flaw in its Outlook email service to gain unauthorized access to victims’ accounts within Exchange servers. The tech giant attributed the intrusions to a threat actor it called Forest Blizzard (formerly Strontium), which

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Spanish media sues Meta for ignoring GDPR and harvesting data 05/12/2023 at 10:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo €550 million lawsuit seeks recompense for ‘systemic and massive’ disregard for privacy laws A group representing some of Spain’s largest media outlets have sued Meta, demanding €550 million ($596 million) in recompense for Zuckercorp’s “systemic and massive” disregard for

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UK government denies China/Russia nuke plant hack claim 05/12/2023 at 09:33 By Simon Sharwood Report suggests Sellafield compromised since 2015, response seems worryingly ignorant of Stuxnet The government of the United Kingdom has issued a strongly worded denial of a report that the Sellafield nuclear complex has been compromised by malware for years.… This article

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China gamifies censorship and surveillance with national internet law quiz 05/12/2023 at 08:33 By Laura Dobberstein I’m not a regular government, I’m a cool government China has introduced a program designed to make propaganda fun – an online knowledge competition designed with questions on the rules of socialist internet and cyber matters.… This article is

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Korean peninsula space race sees South and North launch tit for tat spy sats 05/12/2023 at 06:48 By Laura Dobberstein North claims it took photos of stuff. South points to success of homegrown booster A little more than a week after North Korea claimed to have launched its first indigenous military reconnaissance satellite, South Korea

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Amazon on the hook for predictably revolting use of concealed clothes hook spy cam 05/12/2023 at 05:20 By Thomas Claburn Judge finds plaintiff’s claim – that Amazon knew about illicit usage – credible enough for case to proceed Two years ago, a Brazilian minor came to the US as an exchange student in the US

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