Five Lawsuits, $20 Payout: Class‑action Reality
I'm part of about 5 different class-action lawsuits at the moment and I just got my payout for one of them: $20 🙂
FBI Alerts California: Iran Plans Offshore Drone Strikes if Attacked
FBI recently sent warning to California police about intelligence it obtained from Feb that Iran "aspired" to launch drone strikes in the event the US attacked Iran. They planned to hit unspecified targets in the state from a vessel located...
Oil Above $100 Forces Nationwide Price Adjustments
Oil prices sourced to $120 a barrel on Sunday before dropping to $104. As Billy Bob Thornton notes in this TV clip, at $100+ per barrel, "every product in America has to readjust its price"
Iran's IRGC Threatens US Tech Firms Linked to Israel
Iran's IRGC warns that offices/infrastructure of US firms with links to Israel or whose technology has been used to assist the military will be targeted for physical attack. This includes infrastructure of Google, Palantir, Microsoft, IBM, Nvidia, Oracle https://t.co/M5nw4IhpCK
Iranian Hacktivists Wipe Stryker Employee Devices in Cyberattack
US medical device maker Stryker hit with cyberattack from Iranian hacktivists who remotely wiped employee devices. "many employees have had their device data wiped and cannot access their accounts" Stryker makes surgical/imaging equipment, defibrillators https://t.co/PA2eBYjPfK
Memoir Hype Repeats: Publishers Skip Vetting, Celebrities Amplify
It seems like this story gets repeated every few years. Someone writes a memoir. The book publisher does no due diligence to determine the story's credibility. Oprah and other celebrities heavily promote the book. Then questions arise. https://t.co/zCywhXJble
Graham Claims US Will Profit From Iran War
Sen Lindsey Graham promises US will gain oil/money from Iran war: "We are going to make a ton of money... Venezuela and Iran have 31% of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31% of the...
Trump Administration Shifts From Layoffs to Hiring Spree
After firing thousands of workers, Trump admin now on hiring spree. “We probably have some skills that we now need to hire back, quite frankly,” says head of the Office of Personnel Management. https://t.co/LzqxsR63AM
Cyber Tools: Both Promise and Limits Against Iran's Nuclear Threat
I guess it's fitting that I spent a couple of hours this week signing 400 copies of Countdown to Zero Day for a conference -- fitting because it's a reminder, in regards to Iran's nuclear program, of both the advantages...
Threat Actors Downgrade vSmart Controller to Exploit Root Access
"Using the built-in update mechanism the actor downgraded a vSmart controller to a version with...known local privilege escalation vulnerabilities.... Achieving...persistence as the user ‘root’, the actor [then] restored..controller to [previous] version" https://t.co/PcdPHtzgCR
Ex‑Trenchant Exec Gets 7‑year Sentence
Peter Williams, the former Trenchant exec who stole zero-day exploits from his employer and sold them to a Russian exploit buyer, was sentenced today to 7 years and 3 months in a hearing that was partially closed to the public...
Researcher Traces Death Threats to Snowflake Hack Suspect
When hacker named "Waifu" and "Judische" made death threats against security researcher Allison Nixon, she had no idea why he targeted her. So she set out to unmask him. The quest led her to Connor Moucka, a 25-yr-old behind infamous...
China's Expedition Cloud Trains Hackers on Replica Critical Networks
Leaked files detail a training platform called "Expedition Cloud" that is designed to allow China's hackers to practice hacking critical infrastructure of China’s opponents in South China Sea and Indochina region using replicas of those networks https://t.co/jbJhbj9JRi