There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a community before a cyclone hits. It is not calm. It is anticipation. You hear it in the way people speak at the local servo, in the steady cadence of official briefings, in the quiet urgency of people preparing their homes. Far North Queensland is…
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How to lose friends and DDoS people
When the mysterious operator of an internet archiving-service decided to silence a curious Finnish blogger, they didn’t just send a stroppy email – they allegedly weaponised their own CAPTCHA page to launch a DDoS attack, threatened to invent an entirely new genre of AI porn, and tampered with parts of their own archive to smear…
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Smashing Security podcast #456: How to lose friends and DDoS people
When the mysterious operator of an internet archiving-service decided to silence a curious Finnish blogger, they didn’t just send a stroppy email – they allegedly weaponised their own CAPTCHA page to launch a DDoS attack, threatened to invent an entirely new genre of AI porn, and tampered with parts of their own archive to smear…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, malware, privacy
The €600,000 gold heist, powered by ransomware
Ransomware doesn’t just freeze computers – it can silence alarms too. And when the Natural History Museum in Paris went dark, thieves helped themselves to €600,000 worth of gold in a daring late-night heist. Meanwhile, developers have a new headache: a worm dubbed “Shai Hulud” has wriggled its way through more than 180 npm packages,…