conv.security

“The Department has pledged to take out online predator networks and today's sentence is one step toward justice for the families and children harmed by 764.”— Todd Blanche, US Attorney General · The Guardian · full quotes →

“Residential proxy networks allow other people to rent access to your home or office internet connection.”— Zack Whittaker, Security journalist · This Week in Security · full quotes →

“Found an interesting new malware loader which creates a fake Windows lock screen to phish the user's system login password.”— malwaretech, Security researcher · Mastodon · full quotes →

“If you've ever felt like the surveillance state is too big and too invisible to do anything about, these people are quietly proving otherwise.”— Presenter, Security researcher · YouTube video · full quotes →

“The initial contact was made in the name of a company that did not know about this. So it is pure phishing just to steal your secrets and credentials.”— codedge, Security researcher · codedge blog · full quotes →

“The Fire Point plant in Denmark will be able to produce fuel for more than 4,100 FP-7 ballistic missiles or FP-7.x interceptors per year, according to the…”— byteseu@pubeurope.com, Mastodon account reporting on defense industry · Mastodon · full quotes →

“We know what the work of the church is.”— Rev. Jen Crow, Church reverend · Religion News Service · full quotes →

“A member of the online extremist network "764," which targets children and minors online, received a record 77-year federal prison sentence on Wednesday.”— CBS News · full quotes →

“This is insane, even by the standards of ICE. It's yet another crime and one that they don't have immunity to presumably (acting as an unregistered agent of a…”— TemetN, Reddit commenter · Reddit · full quotes →

“Commercial flights, cash couriers, 'hundreds of millions': US sanctions 10 individuals over alleged Hezbollah network”— The Statesman · The Statesman headline · full quotes →

“The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is looking into the possibility that the shooting incident at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University (AdZU) Junior High…”— NBI Director Melvin Matibag, NBI director · Philippine Daily Inquirer · full quotes →

“A Seoul court on Thursday sentenced a Chinese national to 20 years in prison for leading a hacking scheme targeting K-pop group BTS' member Jungkook and South…”— Korea Times · X / Korea Times · full quotes →

“Cricut were pretty aggressive with disabling/locking machines, but I gathered it would still be worth playing around for some fun.”— Security researcher (xssfox) · sprocketfox.io · full quotes →

“Russia has every incentive to keep this supply chain intact, and it knows exactly how to do that: paperwork.”— EUobserver/analysis · EUobserver · full quotes →

“It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state.”— Bruce Schneier, Security expert · Civic Hygiene blog post · full quotes →

“Radiation levels remain within natural background limits”— Rosatom, Russian nuclear corporation · Anadolu Agency · full quotes →

“Oz Hair and Beauty was targeted in an xpl0itrs extortion attack this week. Data allegedly obtained in the attack was subsequently leaked, including 2M email…”— Have I Been Pwned, Breach database · Mastodon · full quotes →

“This operation does not rely on a single malware but rather depends on an entire toolkit of criminal software that works together. Some components encrypt…”— Jaromir Horejsi, Check Point Research analyst · Mastodon · full quotes →

“A suspected sabotage attack at a building used by Estonian defence contractor Milrem Robotics has not disrupted the company's deliveries of robotic military…”— Milrem Robotics CEO, Chief executive · Straits Times World · full quotes →

“What makes CoSnitch unique is how Copilot surfaced its own vulnerabilities. Our researchers didn't have to reverse-engineer the flaw. The AI exposed the…”— Varonis Threat Labs · The Register · full quotes →

“Gaps in expiry checks could let dead plastic make purchases again”— The Register · full quotes →

“Estonian authorities are investigating potential Russian involvement in a fire that broke out at a building used by defense company Milrem Robotics”— Prime Minister Kristen Michal · Bloomberg Politics · full quotes →

“Unknown parties know where you stayed last summer, down under, across 120 Quest properties”— The Register · full quotes →

“Jetzt werden sie massenhaft zerstört, sowohl von Linken als auch von Rechten, die Kameras, die die No Kings! - Demos ausspähten und nach Abtreibungswilligen…”— why-not.eurosky.social, Bluesky user · Bluesky · full quotes →

“Australia's northern borders are often highlighted as points of weakness but could the United States bolster our defences by making use of bare northern bases?”— Tom Lowrey, ABC News journalist · ABC Australia · full quotes →

“We don't have the sensors, and depending on where that swarm is going to attack, it depends on whether we have any sensors at all”— Lt. Gen. Joseph Jarrard, NORTHCOM Deputy Commander · x.com/@MeidasTouch · full quotes →

“Yup, we're now a police state. No more privacy, no more freedoms, no more!”— growseedsman.bsky.social, Bluesky commenter · Bluesky · full quotes →

“'Cultural Center' or Spy Hub? Berlin Weighs Russian House Closure”— Kyiv Post · Kyiv Post / Mastodon · full quotes →

“Police are searching for a suspect they say climbed through the window of a Massachusetts home early Saturday morning and assaulted a resident.”— MassLive · full quotes →