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Phone unlocking firm Cellebrite to acquire mobile testing startup Corellium for $170M | TechCrunch Cellebrite said the deal will help with the "accelerated identification of mobile vulnerabilities and exploits."

NEW: Cellebrite, maker of phone unlocking tech, to buy mobile testing startup Corellium for $170 million.

Meta Pixel halts Android localhost tracking after disclosure : Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins

Yuck. Meta apps listen on localhost on Android so that tracking scripts can talk to apps, and Meta can monitor your browsing and tie it to identity. Why is that allowed? www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/m...

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The Breachies 2024: The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches of the Year Privacy isn’t dead. While some information about you is almost certainly out there, that’s no reason for despair. In fact, it’s a good reason to take action.

Some data breaches include novel information about us, are the result of particularly noteworthy security flaws, or are just so massive they’re impossible to ignore. Here’s EFF’s list of some of the most egregious data breaches of 2024.

Awesome! Thank you for sharing this and for the awesome journalism! I also signed up! 😃

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Bootkitty: Analyzing the first UEFI bootkit for Linux ESET's discovery of the first UEFI bootkit designed for Linux sendss an important message: UEFI bootkits are no longer confined to Windows systems alone.

First known UEFI bootkit for Linux!

www.welivesecurity.c...

Resharing for reaaaaachhh! 🙌🏽🚀

Yeah after I posted that, I was digging a bit more into it and got the same concerns. Hard to say if it's user error but it seems it's more than one person who reports issues... 🤷🏽‍♂️

You're welcome! And welcome to Bluesky! 🙌🏽🎉 Happy to see this platform grow at the rate it has been!

Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky

I don't know of one but you might be able to find one here! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Ooof 😬

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lord… Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively…

Yesssss! Great book! 👏🏽 If you liked Dark Wire and haven't already, I also really enjoyed reading Tracers in the Dark by @agreenberg.bsky.social

www.goodreads.com/book/show/60...

Modern Red Teaming: macOS, K8s, and Cloud - RTV 24 (Public) Modern Red Teaming: macOS, K8s, and Cloud Carnal0wnage int0x80

DualCore and I spoke at the Red Team Village this year. Here are the slides. QR code with link to gist with all the reference links on last page. Unfortunately it wasn't recorded.

docs.google.com/presentation...

#redteam #purpleteam #redteamvillage

💯 great choice! Long time Apple user here and I also made the transition several months ago. Only regret is that I didn't switch sooner 😅 GrapheneOS is awesome! Also happy to help anyway I can!

go.bsky.app/EPfxWvp by @0x0.boo

Love this. Enjoy your time! Wish this was my view right now 😅

Wow! Amazing view! 😍

Filen – Next Generation End-To-End Encrypted Cloud Storage Filen – Next Generation End-To-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. Get started with 10 GB of free space.

Oh and while on the subject; also considering using Filen as my E2EE cloud storage solution to supplement Proton Drive, which I use as well but unfortunately doesn't have great Linux support 👎🏽

filen.io

Why did I wait so long to do this? 🤷🏽‍♂️ I've had a super old Evernote account that I stopped using a long time ago. I finally exported everything out and closed my account! I've been using Standard Notes (but lately eyeing Notesnook). Check them out!

standardnotes.com
notesnook.com

#Security #Privacy

Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.

Russian spies—likely Russia's GRU intelligence agency—used a new trick to hack a victim in Washington, DC: They remotely infected another network in a building across the street, hijacked a laptop there, then breached the target organization via its Wifi. www.wired.com/story/russia...

Wouldn't have it any other way... 🤣

Det. Eng. Weekly #93 - Does a tangodown 3-peat count after a week off? I take a week off publishing and a ransomware operator gets arrested, coincidence?

Det. Eng. Weekly Issue 93 is live! https://buff.ly/3UWj3xG

* 💎 by Andrew VanVleet on resiliency in your detection stack
* @anton1chuvakin.bsky.social on alert fatigue and reframing alert labeling to more than just false positives and true positives
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😱 yikes, this is wild! Great read and investigation!

💀 rip

ha, same! I literally thought I got banned as well. Checked bluesky.statuspage.io but hasn't been updated with any issues yet.

Yesssssss!! 💯 🙌🏽

Mercury Cafe in SF is vibes ☕🤌🏽 places like this make me miss Chicago's Jupiter Outpost, which sadly closed permanently. What coffee shops do you frequent, #sanfrancisco?

Another good one to add to the list! go.bsky.app/EPfxWvp