Phishing attacks appear to be going after perceived enemies of Russia - the techniques are involved and will catch out many. If in doubt don’t open it. citizenlab.ca/2024/08/sophis…

One of our best.

I’m getting that Deja vu feeling (again) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Oh no… who would have guessed that solar panel clouds were vulnerable and so not want to fix their vulnerabilities. It’s like someone did several talks the past couple of years on exactly that… youtu.be/7T6I-VcWQ0o?si…

Does anyone know what charges Pavel Durov (founder of Telegram) the French authorities have used to arrest him?

The charges behind arrest in France of Telegram founder is becoming clearer tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/…

Well that’s not a headline I expected to see today bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-…

Moderate confidence that Chinese state actors have been exploiting the Versa zero day much reported - it’s an involved tale but worth a read blog.lumen.com/taking-the-cro…

Things move on in the Telegram/France story arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

The Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture is awarded to Professor Hannah Fry for her prolific science communication activity as the foremost populariser of maths in the country who continues to inspire young people to pursue maths and physics in fun and exciting

Nice explanation from Vangelis tix Stykas about why it’s more difficult to fight ransomware infrastructure than usual enterprise systems.

Various governments starting to play tough with tech platforms - the Brazilian decision against Starlink following actions of X seems a little bit of a stretch. I wonder who’s next? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Does this mean that a cloud based system is reading your messages? If it’s possible to opt out then that solves some concerns; likewise your control over the output. Tech being “helpful” needs careful thinking through HT Alec Muffett

It’ll be interesting to see what the wider security community make of this standard - in use but now a standard.

If you’re into understanding how bugs are exploited then this blog highlighted by Nicolas Krassas is an interesting read: 4 exploits from 1 bug.

Is Telegram still making an operating loss? Am I correct in thinking it’s basically funded by debt secured against bonds? What happens when these bonds mature? Does Telegram implode? Anyone know of a good write-up on the financing of Telegram?

Telegram is coming in for scrutiny that I don’t think is going to help their case in France. Joe Tidy tried a few experiments and the results were … well read the article and decide for yourself.

Has anyone read this document? It’s been suggested it’s the prelude to resumption of EU efforts to introduce #chatcontrol but the document doesn’t seem to be public.

Telegram has made some small but important changes to their FAQs - check it out for yourself web.archive.org/web/diff/20240… They appear to be toning down just how private their messaging is, and emphasising how illegal material can be reported.

Google was abusing ad tech finds the CMA - nicely summarised here by Chris Vallance bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…