Infosec Decoded #55: DEATH RAYS

with @djhardb, @infosecirvin, @KaitlynGuru, @sambowne, and Alan Wennersten.

Aug 27, 2021

Sam Bowne @sambowne

Hackers are trying to topple Belarus’s dictator, with help from the inside Apple will finally let devs tell users about non-App Store purchase options Tesla files to become an electricity provider in Texas

Elizabeth Biddlecome @djhardb

Western Digital confirms speed crippling SN550 SSD flash change Alphabet’s drones delivered 10,000 cups of coffee and 1,200 roast chickens in the last year New York robbery crew used Apple Watch to net $500K, feds say

Kaitlyn Handelman @KaitlynGuru

Amazon Urges FCC to Deny SpaceX's Plan for Second-Generation Starlink U.S. Air Force Predicts Force Fields And Death Rays By 2060 San Francisco luxury tower still sinking even as engineers work on $100m fix

Irvin Lemus @infosecirvin

Ten-Digit Dialing Scammer Infiltrated Thousands of iCloud Accounts to Find Nude Photos White House Tasks NIST with Producing Another Cybersecurity Framework

Alan Wennersten

How Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet Israeli firm Bright Data named as enabler of Philippines government DDOS attacks on opposition groups Preparing for the Turnover Crisis