AI is getting “creepy good” at geo-guessing

If you are worried about revealing your exact location—or if you maybe even fib about it at times—there are some good reasons to worry about what is visible in background photos, because Artificial Intelligence AI is getting very good at guessing where you are based on the smallest of clues. And...

New Clues Suggest Stolen FTX Funds Went to Russia-Linked Money Launderers

Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—and eventually some that look Russian in origin...

KrebsOnSecurity in Upcoming Hulu Series on Ashley Madison Breach

KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach at marital infidelity site Ashley Madison. While I cant predict what the producers will do with the video interviews we shot, its fair to say the series will explore...

Deepfake study suggests fakes can run but not hide

I have long said that Deepfakes missed the boat on being stealthy, believable pieces of footage able to turn the tide of elections or other major events. We’ve seen time and again how suggested examples of use during important happenings have been terrible, whereas the smart use has tended to be...

CVE-2020-35624

An issue was discovered in the SecurePoll extension for MediaWiki through 1.35.1. The non-admin vote list contains a full vote timestamp, which may provide unintended clues about how a voting process unfolded...

Zodiac Killer Cipher Solved

The SF Chronicle is reporting more details here, and the FBI is confirming, that a Melbourne mathematician and team has decrypted the 1969 message sent by the Zodiac Killer to the newspaper. Theres no paper yet, but there are a bunch of details in the news articles. Heres an interview with one of...

Metadata Analysis Draws its Own Conclusions on WannaCry Authors

The most intriguing mystery that remains about WannaCry is the identity of the attacker. The theory with the best legs is that North Korea’s Lazarus APT is the entity behind the worldwide ransomware outbreak given the discovery of shared code samples in the malware with older Lazarus attacks. Tha...

Visual clues to native vs. ldap users and groups

In a mixed environment with Confluence and LDAP users and groups, it would be helpful when administering users and groups to see if they belong in LDAP or Confluence. Perhaps different color icons...

Visual clues to native vs. ldap users and groups

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-23355. panel In a mixed environment with Confluence and LDAP users and groups, it would be helpful when administering users and...

Kerala cyber police closing in on software theft culprits !

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5 IANS The cyber wing of the Kerala Police Wednesday claimed it had got vital clues about the theft of software source codes and intellectual property data from a Kochi-based IT company. The investigation is progressing on the right track, V.K. Ajith Mohan of the police...

Tracking Malware Paths For Exploit Clues

Criminals increasingly attempt to camouflage the traces of their malware on the internet to keep control of a hijacked server for as long as possible. However, their paths can be retraced using special tools to identify the vulnerability the malware intends to exploit to enter a system. Read the...

Hidden message in Verizon breach report

Last week, after I dropped clues that the cover of this year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report contained a cryptographic challenge, several readers immediately jumped on the challenge. In this blog post, Veracode’s Chris Eng provides a fun walk-through of how he decoded the pattern of 1...

What's on the cover of that Verizon breach report?

Psst! Psst! Ryan here. Did you notice that all the text on the cover of Verizon’s 2009 data breach report pdf is selectable? A little birdie tells me that’s no coincidence. Encrypted message, etc. Even better, the report contains some obvious clues to decrypt. And something about cash prizes for...