Unsupervised Learning

Trump has semi-banned the use of foreign telecom gear, which is really a direct shot at Huawei and China. more Baltimore’s IT systems are still being held hostage after 2 weeks. Of all the cities in the world that I could imagine this happening to, Baltimore is towards the top of the list. If you don’t have good schools or a good police force, I don’t expect you’d have...

My Takeaways from the 2019 DBIR Report M y S ummary   The Report The DOJ has unsealed the indictment against those who they believe hacked Anthem in 2015, and they are Chinese Nationals. They didn't reveal the suspected motive, however. But as I wrote about last year, I don't think we need an explanation. I think it's obvious . More An Airbnb host in China has been arrested for watching...

A short essay that attempts to wrap a simple narrative around what's happening with the exodus of the New Left, and what it's doing to the moderate left, center, and right that they left behind. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Deepfakes are about to seriously erode our collective ability to tell truth from fiction, and this is already a big enough problem without them. Think of every problem you care about, and realize this represents an exponent on each one. This video captures it extremely well. Link Slack has warned the world that it's being targeted by Nation State actors. I'm glad they said it, but we already knew...

Today's standalone episode of Unsupervised Learning is a political conversation with Jeremiah Grossman, who many of you will know as the founder of Whitehat Security, current CEO of BitDiscovery, Jujitsu Blackbelt, and all-around great individual. In this episode, however, we’re not going to be talking about Information Security, but Politics. We have remarkably different and similar vi...

Amazon has many thousands of people doing quality control on Alexa, meaning that they're listening to incoming audio captured on Echo devices. This shouldn't be surprising. The question is how they're doing it, and what policies they have around privacy when doing so. I don't personally see a major problem here. But at the same time I'd never put a Facebook device in my home. To me it's more about...

Mastercard is looking to create a Digital ID service that can bind your digital presence to your mobile device, which will be able to verify you to various services. Palantir has won an $800 million contract to build the next combat intelligence system (to replace DCGS-A) for the Army. Putin appears to be causing brain drain in Russia. Dropbox has an interesting proposal for improving vendor secur...

Multiple governments have now blacklisted Huawei, which Huawei seems very confused by. The best explanation I've heard so far about why this move makes sense for western countries came from Rob Joyce of NSA. He basically said that just like Kaspersky in Russia, the reason you can't trust Huawei is that it's a Chinese company, and even if they're not already infiltrated by the Chinese government, t...

This is a description of cyberwar that sounds quite realistic to me, and it's based around the thousand-cuts idea. Ring Doorbells have a vulnerability that allows one to capture clear-text videos and other data from the cameras if you can get on the wireless network that the camera is using. An independent security researcher found the Dow Jones Watchlist database sitting open on the internet. Sch...

OpenAI text spoofing, Twitter DMs, Chinese tracking database, Ponemon Cyber Risk Score, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My takeaways from ENIGMA 2019—one of my two favorite conferences in the world. The US has charged Huawei with stealing trade secrets, money laundering, and fraud. This escalates the already tense situation with China on a number of fronts. An engineer does a Twitter thread on AI-created videos on YouTube. He describes how they are created, promoted, and selected for display in recommendation...

We just released the 2018 version of the OWASP Internet of Things Top 10, and in this episode I talk you through the list and give the philosophy, methodology, and next steps for the project. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

German politicians hacked, NSA's new RE tool, Weather Channel tracking, sick TSA agents, Facebook dust tracking, Technology News, Human News, Ideas, Discovery, Recommendations, and the weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Google+ breach, Android flaws, China's long game against the US, Australia's encryption blunder, NYPD drones, and more… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ukraine malware, China's Black Mirror, DARPA's Mosaic, FBI trolling, Silicon Valley jobs, Technology News, Human News, Ideas, Trends, & Analysis, Discovery, Notes, Recommendations, and the weekly Aphorism! Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

OWASP IoT Top 10 Draft, Facebook compromise, Fornite cheating, Pentagon weapons, spam calls, technology news, human news, ideas, discovery, recommendation, and the weekly aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AMA Summer 2018 , Security News, Technology News, Human News, Ideas, Discovery, and the weekly Recommendation and Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

TLS 1.3, BurpSuite Improvements, Google Ad Database, Russian Attack Sattelites, Amazon Theaters, Google AI Cooling, Wheat Genome, Giant Magellan Telescope, Carb Ratios, Leg Exercise and Cognitive Health, Ideas, Discovery, Notes, Recommendations, and the weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GRU ATT&CK analysis, Assange to the UK, Cisco backdoors, DARPA electronics, faces from genomes, viz.ai, open plans are bad, Best Buy consulting, ultrasound vs. dementia, 4 day work weeks, ideas, recommendations, and the aphorism of the week! Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Twitter deleting accounts, deepfakes, location leaks, Rekognition, bio databases, juggalo makeup, iOS 12 security, Siri upgrades, and more… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Predicting your credit rating based on the tech you use, Russians attack Germans, WPA3, China bird drones, AT&T and Verison to stop selling our location data, Facebook red team, Twitter Smyte, plus tech, humans, discovery, and more… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reboot your router, China hacked a U.S. Navy contractor and stole around 600GB of top secret data. Newark, NJ is monitoring much of the city with surveillance cameras, and they're making the camera footage available to the public. Facebook also shared data with a number of Chinese companies. Tech, Humans, Ideas, Discovery, Reconmendations, Aphorism…  Become a Member: https://...

Pentagon background checks, China using machine learning in schools, Rusian ethnicity detecting AI, US Military presence in Africa, Atlanta lost dashcam footage, Kidnapping insurance, Technology News, Ideas, Recommendation, Aphorism, and more… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

VPNFilter botnet, Echo private convo, Ghostery GDPR fail, PornHub VPN, Technology News, Human News, Ideas, Trends, & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, the weekly Aphorism, and more… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

VPNFilter botnet, LA + Palantir, Amazon Surveillance, Momentum report, Clapper says Russia turned the election, Chinese supply chain attacks, Tech News, Human News, Ideas, Discovery, Recommendation, the Aphorism, and more… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.