Infrastructure, security and automation at RAI - Italian national public broadcasting company.
EBU MediaCybersecurity workgroup member.
Opinions are my own.
tl;dr WhatsApp fixed the vuln on the back end, so you don't need to do anything to your phone, up to and including enabling Lockdown mode. Paragon Solutions sucks and you should be mad at them for enabling spying on civil society.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/31/whatsapp-israel-spyware
#Spyware is harming journalists and freedom of speech.
#Paragon, NSO Group and similar companies (including Italian spyware vendors, of course) must be stopped and banned from operating.
https://www-ilpost-it.translate.goog/2025/02/01/whatsapp-dice-che-oltre-novanta-giornalisti-e-attivisti-sono-stati-spiati-sulla-sua-app/?homepagePosition=8&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
I wanted to know if a certain AO tennis match has already been played or not, without reading the final score in the former case, and I thought "let's give this #grok AI a try".
As I often experienced with other AIs, the reply looked really good but was absolutely false.
#aifailures
Wow! What a tool!
https://github.com/drk1wi/portspoof
Living in a Spyware Hub
https://therecord.media/how-italy-became-an-unexpected-spyware-hub
RAI and other media companies are launching a new nonprofit company hosted at #EBU.
#Security4Media aims at building a secure and trustworthy media landscape.
https://security4media.org/
Looking for a new #infosec #job?
#Security4Media is #hiring! 👨💻🔐
https://www.ebu.ch/careers/vacancy?utm_source=Careers%20Page&utm_medium=Job%20Card%20Link&utm_campaign=Jobs
Feel free to write me for any information.
#HiringAlert #HiringOpportunity
Automated, #LLM #AI powered, replies to #googlemaps business #reviews are going mainstream.
I don't like them and here's my #turingtest .
#pizza #extinct #animals
It's true: Google Scholar profile of the renowned former physicist and polymath, Sir Isaac Newton bears a "verified" email note. According to Google Scholar, Isaac Newton is a "Professor of Physics, MIT" with a "Verified email at mit.edu."
GREAT change is approaching. NIST will standardise prohibition of requirement of composing passwords from various character styles, and requirement for periodic password changes. These are harmful and obsolete rules. Now they will be treated as a cybersecurity weakness https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b.html
New from 404 Media: Google is serving AI images of mushrooms when users search for some species. Very risky, potentially fatal error for foragers who are trying to find what mushrooms are safe to eat. Could have "devastating consequences" one expert said https://www.404media.co/google-serves-ai-generated-images-of-mushrooms-putting-foragers-at-risk/
@ecn great analysis! I received this yesterday and I also received two other, similar emails, a couple of days before:
GitHub Notification Emails Hijacked to Send Malware
I partly agree with this article...
Still, I'd never ever drop #Debian because it doesn't have #SELinux
https://unix.foo/posts/insecurity-of-debian/
Signal is blocked in several countries but you can set up a proxy server to help people access Signal no matter where they live. Here’s how:
https://signal.org/blog/proxy-please
Thank you for helping keep Signal available for everyone who needs it.
To share your proxies use #SignalProxy
We're aware of reports that access to Signal has been blocked in some countries. As a reminder, Signal's built-in censorship circumvention feature might be able to help if your connection is affected:
Signal Settings > Privacy > Advanced > Censorship circumvention (on)
Getting bored of "limited, targeted exploitation"
#cve_2024_36971 #android #exploitation
Great piece by @lhn and @mattburgess on the infostealer marketplace. The bad guys have gone full service retail.
https://www.wired.com/story/infostealer-malware-password-theft/
