Friday Squid Blogging: Bioluminescent Squid
There’s a beautiful picture of a tiny squid in this New York Times article on bioluminescence—and a dramatic one of a vampire squid.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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Ben A. • September 1, 2017 4:31 PM
Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode
“…we describe how we discovered this undocumented mode and how it is connected with the U.S. government’s High Assurance Platform (HAP) program.
http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html
restic cryptography
https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/
Deputy AG Rosenstein calls for law to require encryption backdoors
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/31/deputy_ag_rosenstein_calls_to_force_backdoors/
‘Independent’ gov law reviewer wants users preemptively identified before they’re ‘allowed’ to use encryption
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/01/max_hill_qc_deny_encryption_anonymous_users/
Monitoring Windows Console Activity
http://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/08/monitoring-windows-console-activity-part-one.html
http://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/08/monitoring-windows-console-activity-part-two.html
Kaspersky – Neutralization reaction – Incident Response Guide
https://securelist.com/neutralization-reaction/81620/
https://cdn.securelist.com/files/2017/08/Incident_Response_Guide_eng.pdf
Site sells Instagram users’ phone and e-mail details, $10 a search
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/site-sells-instagram-users-phone-and-e-mail-details-10-a-search/
Did German U-Boats Smuggle Alcohol Into the U.S. During Prohibition?
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rum-running-submarines-german-uboats-prohibition-smuggling