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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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