DETSEC - Nacogdoches, TX

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DETSEC

What We’re Into

Hacking / Cybersecurity

Security

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3D Printing

Drones

Arduino / Electronics

Home Automation

AI

Security news

Daniel Miessler

The Bitter Wall

The Bitter Lesson, Generalized

Vibe Coding Isn't Using AI to Make Things

Focus on Problems Instead of Companies

The Hard Problem of Jealousy and the Easy Problem of Consciousness

Krebs on Security

Who Runs the Ransomware Group Qilin?

Microsoft Fixes Nearly 1,100 Security Vulnerabilities

Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House?

Tech Firms Dismantle Botnet That Turned 1.3M TV Boxes Into Proxies

Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today

Schneier on Security

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Friday Squid Blogging: Pacific Flying Squid Populations Dropping in Korean Waters

AI Doesn’t Have to Go Rogue to Break the World

Another Way Police Are Locating People from Their Smartphones

Three People Arrested for AI-Enhanced Impersonation Fraud

Register Security

Big Tech takes a beating as online safety experts accuse companies of doing bare minimum

This year’s bug count just passed 100K

Quantum Systems drones back in the air after malware scare

Crackdown on UK medical record snooping after staff reported sneaking 300+ times this year

Brit police watchdog says cops' use of facial recog risks wrongful arrests

Threat Post

Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records

Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger

Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms

Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise

Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras

Hacker News

Italy Fines Meta €805 Million Over Facebook's Android Gallery Access Without Explicit Consent

Cursor Says Stolen Fireworks AI Key Led to Trojanized Claude Code Extension Incident

Attackers Exploit UnrealIRCd Flaw That Enables Server-Level Command Injection

PostgreSQL Patches 52 Flaws, Including 22-Year-Old Bug Enabling Authenticated RCE

New Mior and Skyfall Attacks Let Rogue Cloud Hosts Steal Secrets From AMD SEV-SNP VMs

Security Week

Pentagon Renames CDAO ‘Super Intelligence Office’

Meta Fined $887 Million in Italy Over Android Gallery Photos and Videos on Facebook

Is AI Making Us Worse at Cybersecurity?

Apple Reveals How Secure Exclaves Shield Camera and Microphone Data

No Signs of Hacking in FAA Ground Stop as FBI Reportedly Probes Software Update

Wired Security

Beware the New AI-Fueled Ransomware Boom

Microsoft 365 Crawls Back to Life After a 24-Hour Outage

The Microsoft Outage Is a Warning for the World

Major Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves People With Email Jobs Unable to Email

Apple’s HomeView Tries Face Authentication Without FaceID

Wired AI

AI DJs Completely Kill My Groove

This AI Tamagotchi Turns Everyday Objects Into Needy Virtual Pets

Beware the New AI-Fueled Ransomware Boom

No Pilots. Few Air Traffic Controllers. What Could Go Wrong?

Microsoft 365 Crawls Back to Life After a 24-Hour Outage