Security News #87: No Cookie For You

with @djhardb, @infosecirvin, @KaitlynGuru, and @sambowne

Dec 18, 2020

Irvin Lemus @infosecirvin

Total Published CVEs Hits Record High for Fourth Year No cookie for you Google will officially support running Chrome OS on old PCs

Kaitlyn Handelman @KaitlynGuru

Today NSA included a preview Debugger on the Ghidra GitHub tree System Bus Radio Neo-Nazi attack survivors create tool to track racist extremists

Sam Bowne @sambowne

Teen takes exams in hazmat suit as family says school district won't take COVID-19 seriously Researchers create entangled photons 100 times more efficiently than previously possible Quantum-entangled atomic clock keeps spookily accurate time Researchers Have Achieved Sustained Long-Distance Quantum Teleportation Real-Life Spider Shoots Web 25 Metres Long!

Elizabeth Biddlecome @djhardb

Hackers Use Mobile Emulators to Steal Millions Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems US nuke agency hacked by suspected Russian SolarWinds spies, Microsoft also installed backdoor SolarWinds: Hey, only as many as 18,000 customers installed backdoored software linked to US govt hacks Opinion | How to defend against the next Russian cyberattacks The intelligence coup of the century (from Feb.) Hackers targeted US nuclear weapons agency in massive cybersecurity breach, reports say