Yahoo! is sending out another round of notifications to users saying there was an issue last year where attackers could create backdoor cookies using internally created software. This creates more questions than answers for me. Link
A U.S. company's toy called My Friend Cayla is a doll that can be controlled via speech recognition and over the internet via an app. Germany has classified the doll as an illegal espionage apparatus and have demanded that German stores stop selling it. The fallout from Snowden continues. Link
There's a new piece of Mac malware that's supposedly linked to the APT28 group that is said to have been associated with election related hacking last year. Link
Google shared their zero-trust network security implementation at RSA last week. Lots of companies talk about this, but they're actually doing it. And it's taken six years to get where they are. Link
IBM researcher Charles Henderson can still follow his car everywhere, even though he solid it a long time ago. Link
Researchers are warning that voice authentication is not good enough, and that it must be combined with other authentication types. I 100% agree. Link
Dutch researchers have found a way to undermine ASLR protection, which could make it much easier to create working exploits. Link
A subdomain belonging to Donald Trump was hacked by someone who left a pro-Iraqi message. Secure2.donaldjtrump.com was evidently compromised through a DNS configuration flaw. Link
Technology news
Apple has purchased an Israeli company called RealFace that specializes in facial recognition. I hope they don't go to this exclusively, as I think it's going to be a lot more error-prone than TouchID. Link
Google Fiber is shrinking massively as it prepares for new connectivity deployments to be mostly wireless. Link
The cost of manufacturing carbon fiber has fallen massively, and the price to consumers is about to follow. Link
Human news
Robots will soon do your taxes. Those jobs are just about gone. Link
We don't understand consciousness, and we don't understand quantum physics. Some researchers are starting to ask if that's more than a coincidence. Link
26% of American adults haven't read a book in the past year. I suspect the problem is far worse than that. Link
The extreme nerdiness of hand-drawn infographics. Link
Here are the slides from my RSA talk on securing Medical Devices using Adaptive Testing methodologies. Link
Here are the slides from my IOAsis talk on implementing Honeytokens throughout the stack without a budget. Link
I'm going through the RSA 2017 vendor list and condensing each interesting technology company into a single sentence. I need someone to pick an alphabet letter and help me clear out the list. I'm currently in the D's (lol). If you want to volunteer for a letter, ping me at danel@danielmiessler.com. Link
I'm about halfway done with the Hamilton biography, and I've just purchased the Federalist Papers as well, which I'll read next. Link
Recommendations
Ensure that your backup strategy is resistant to malware. In other words, if ransomware malware can get to your backups, then you might as well not have any backups.
Aphorism
"By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you." ~ Unknown
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