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  • Israel Hacked Traffic Cameras in Iran

    Israel Hacked Traffic Cameras in Iran Multiple news outlets are reporting on Israel’s hacking of Iranian traffic cameras and how they assisted with the killing of that country’s leadership. The New York Times has an on the intelligence operation more generally. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

  • Palo Alto Crosswalk Signals Had Default Passwords

    Palo Alto Crosswalk Signals Had Default Passwords Palo Alto’s crosswalk signals were hacked last year. Turns out the city never changed the default passwords. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

  • A Cyberattack Was Part of the US Assault on Venezuela

    A Cyberattack Was Part of the US Assault on Venezuela We don’t have many details: President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that the U.S. used cyberattacks or other technical capabilities to cut power off in Caracas during strikes on the Venezuelan capital that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. If true, it would…

  • Denmark Accuses Russia of Conducting Two Cyberattacks

    Denmark Accuses Russia of Conducting Two Cyberattacks News: The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyber-attack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Danish websites in the lead-up to the municipal and regional council elections in November. The first,…

  • A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted

    A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted Here’s the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, internal corporate and government communications, private citizens’…

  • US Disrupts Massive Cell Phone Array in New York

    US Disrupts Massive Cell Phone Array in New York This is a weird story: The US Secret Service disrupted a network of telecommunications devices that could have shut down cellular systems as leaders gather for the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. The agency said on Tuesday that last month it found more…

  • Hacking Trains

    Hacking Trains Seems like an old system system that predates any care about security: The flaw has to do with the protocol used in a train system known as the End-of-Train and Head-of-Train. A Flashing Rear End Device (FRED), also known as an End-of-Train (EOT) device, is attached to the back of a train and…

  • Communications Backdoor in Chinese Power Inverters

    Communications Backdoor in Chinese Power Inverters This is a weird story: U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said. […] Over the past nine months, undocumented…

  • China Sort of Admits to Being Behind Volt Typhoon

    China Sort of Admits to Being Behind Volt Typhoon The Wall Street Journal has the story: Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that Beijing was behind a widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring how hostilities between the two superpowers are continuing to escalate.…