Thursday, November 29
TOP STORY
How Yemen’s civil war went cyber - by Axios. Some great reporting and more info in this Recorded Future article
TWEET OF THE DAY
Engineers want their code to work, and at @DeliverooEng I have observed a shift from "Argh! Bugs!" to "Ooh, that's a good one!" and a sense of warm respect that people are taking a deep interest in the quality of their code. It's competitive. It's fun. It drives good behaviour. - @AlecMuffet
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
McAfee Labs 2019 Threats Predictions Report with predictions that cyber criminals will combine forces, AI evasion techniques will go to new levels
New $70M fund wants to make NYC the cyber capital. We know where h1-212 2022 will be held.
Instagram Multi-factor authentication Bypass, simple but excellent find by vishnuraj
JavaScript library abused to inject malicious code, called Event-Stream, into a package used by the Copay and BitPay apps which would enable an attacker to steal a wallet’s private keys. Further reading in the Bitpay statement.
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By gaining control of YemenNet, the Houthis gained control of the “.ye” domain — the Yemeni equivalent of “.com.” At the conference, threat intelligence firm Recorded Future noted that the Houthis used that control to take over national websites and declare themselves the official government.
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