Tuesday, May 30, 2023

What IAm Reading 5/30/2023

 - Sorry missed last week and in a hurry this week so it's kind of sloppy -

 Is cybersecurity an unsolvable problem?

https://arstechnica.com/features/2023/05/is-cybersecurity-an-unsolvable-problem/

US Probing Cybersecurity Risks of Rockwell Automation’s China Operations: Report

https://www.securityweek.com/us-probing-cybersecurity-risks-of-rockwell-automations-china-operations-report/

Unearthed: CosmicEnergy, malware for causing Kremlin-style power disruptions

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/unearthed-cosmicenergy-malware-for-causing-kremlin-style-power-disruptions/

Chinese state hackers infect critical infrastructure throughout the US and Guam

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/chinese-state-hackers-infect-critical-infrastructure-throughout-the-us-and-guam/

People's Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actor Living off the Land to Evade Detection

https://media.defense.gov/2023/May/24/2003229517/-1/-1/0/CSA_Living_off_the_Land.PDF

'Volt Typhoon' China-Backed APT Infiltrates US Critical Infrastructure Orgs

https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/-volt-typhoon-china-backed-apt-infiltrates-us-critical-infrastructure

FBI Disarms Russian FSB 'Snake' Malware Network

https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/fbi-disarms-russian-fsb-snake-malware-network

Experts Detail New Zero-Click Windows Vulnerability for NTLM Credential Theft

https://thehackernews.com/2023/05/experts-detail-new-zero-click-windows.html

Microsoft will take nearly a year to finish patching new 0-day Secure Boot bug

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/microsoft-patches-secure-boot-flaw-but-wont-enable-fix-by-default-until-early-2024/

How Cybercriminals Adapted to Microsoft Blocking Macros by Default

https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/how-malware-delivery-adapted-to-microsoft-blocking-macros-by-default

Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/a-decade-after-it-mattered-windows-xps-activation-algorithm-is-cracked/

Cancel your WinRAR trial: Windows will soon support RAR, gz, 7z, and other archives

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/cancel-your-winrar-trial-windows-will-soon-support-rar-gz-7z-and-other-archives/

Leak of MSI UEFI signing keys stokes fears of “doomsday” supply chain attack

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/leak-of-msi-uefi-signing-keys-stokes-concerns-of-doomsday-supply-chain-attack/

Hackers attempt to extort Dragos and its executives in suspected ransomware attempt

https://cyberscoop.com/dragos-cyberattack-ransomware/

The Vulnerability Assessment Framework: Stop Inefficient Patching Now and Transform Your Vulnerability Management

https://www.sans.org/blog/the-vulnerability-assessment-framework/

Google to expand dark web monitoring to all Gmail users in the U.S.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-expand-dark-web-monitoring-to-all-gmail-users-in-the-u-s/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

FTX’s Bankman-Fried seeks tossing of charges over crypto collapse

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/9/ftxs-bankman-fried-seeks-tossing-of-charges-over-crypto-collapse

Zimbabwe’s new gold-backed digital currency: All you need to know

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/9/zimbabwes-new-gold-backed-digital-currency-all-you-need-to-know

How An Obscure OTC-Traded Derivative From the 80's Took Over Crypto

https://blog.everstrike.io/how-an-obscure-otc-traded-derivative-took-over-crypto/

Texas moves to create gold-backed digital currency

https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-06/Texas-moves-to-create-gold-backed-digital-currency.html

Cory Doctorow Explains Why Big Tech Is Making the Internet Terrible

https://jacobin.com/2023/05/cory-doctorow-big-tech-internet-monopoly-capitalism-artificial-intelligence-crypto/

The Ten Things I Do to Burn Fat Like a Furnace

https://primecuts.substack.com/p/the-ten-things-i-do-to-burn-fat-like

New York Is Forcing Schools to Change How They Teach Children to Read

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/nyregion/reading-nyc-schools.html#commentsContainer

Students can’t get off their phones. Schools have had enough.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/09/school-cellphone-ban-yondr/

What happens when half of the network is down?

https://blog.ipfs.tech/2023-ipfs-unresponsive-nodes/

Twitter plans to remove and archive inactive accounts

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65533014?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Right-wing Twitter worried Musk’s CEO pick could return Twitter to its roots

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/twitter-users-fear-new-ceo-will-end-musks-commitment-to-free-speech-on-platform/

Children's commissioner: Pornography affecting 8-year-olds' behaviour

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65534354?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

US Gulf states’ inactive, uncapped oil and gas wells a $30 billion liability

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/gulf-states-inactive-uncapped-oil-and-gas-wells-a-30-billion-liability/

14th Amendment option on the debt ceiling would need to overcome DOJ concerns

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/14th-amendment-option-debt-ceiling-need-overcome-doj-concerns-rcna83514

What does a leaked Google memo reveal about the future of AI?

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/05/11/what-does-a-leaked-google-memo-reveal-about-the-future-of-ai

The Man Who Invented the Modern Cop Novel

https://quillette.com/2023/04/23/the-man-who-invented-the-cop-novel/

Vint Cerf on 3 Mistakes He Made in TCP/IP

https://spectrum.ieee.org/vint-cerf-mistakes

America’s jobs report is not as strong as it seems

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/05/05/americas-jobs-report-is-not-as-strong-as-it-seems

Former Uber Security Officer Won’t Go To Prison For Covering Up A 2016 Data Breach

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/10/former-uber-security-officer-wont-go-to-prison-for-covering-up-a-2016-data-breach/

Executive Fired From TikTok’s Chinese Owner Says Beijing Had Access to App Data in Termination Suit

https://www.securityweek.com/executive-fired-from-tiktoks-chinese-owner-says-beijing-had-access-to-app-data-in-termination-suit/

Nationwide push to require social media age verification raises questions about privacy, industry standards

https://cyberscoop.com/age-verfication-schatz-cotton-social-media/

Can a wind turbine handle hurricane speed winds?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65261147?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

China bans major chip maker Micron from key infrastructure projects

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65667746?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

‘In a lot of the world, the clock has hit midnight’: China is calling in loans to dozens of countries from Pakistan to Kenya

https://fortune.com/2023/05/18/china-belt-road-loans-pakistan-sri-lanka-africa-collapse-economic-instability/













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