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Links Discussed
Wacky tech news:
- $2,350 Amazon ‘Astro’ Business Robots To Become Pointless Paperweights 11 Months After Release
- Researchers Call for “Child-Safe AI” After Alexa Tells Little Girl to Stick Penny in Wall Socket
- Popular defi protocol websites replaced with wallet drainers amid mass Squarespace domain hijacking
- Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
- Cloudflare Reports that Almost 7% of All Internet Traffic Is Malicious
Firefox Woes:
Solutions Roundup:
- Firefox Hardening Guide 2024
- I used a ‘dumb phone’ for a week – here are 5 things I loved and 5 things I missed
- What is Podcasting 2.0? And Why Should I Care?
- How and Why to Block Ads
- Reaching an “end of the line” regarding proprietary OSes
Dispatches from the Cyberwar
SAP AI Core Vulnerabilities Expose Customer Data to Cyber Attacks
After the Break
Crowdstrike
- Sherief, FYI
- X thread of the scope of the damage
- Commentary of BSOD’d MRI machine
- How does one secure data?
- Experts are warning it could take ‘weeks’ to fix the global IT outage – here’s what we know
- CrowdStrike took down Debian and Rocky Linux a few months ago and no one noticed
- Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configuration change
Read more:
- Technical Details: Falcon Content Update for Windows Hosts
- Remediation and Guidance Hub: Falcon Content Update for Windows Hosts
Notable Breaches
- Risk & Repeat: AT&T’s Snowflake database breached
- Huge AT&T Data Breach
- Data breach raises questions about Fractal ID’s decentralized identity architecture
Government and Tech
- For Whatever Reason, The US Post Office Is Still Running Its Mail Cover Surveillance Program
- The Role of Public Money in the Digital Age
- White House wants to boost cyber funds for fiscal 2026
- EC cuts funding support for Free Software projects
- KDE signs petition urging European Union to continue funding free software
