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No, that public charger won’t hack your phone. probably

Vox

Juice jacking is when someone tampers with a charging station or USB port, allowing it to leach data from your phone or install malware on it while you top off your battery. Bad actors have figured out ways to use public USB ports to introduce malware and monitoring software onto devices.” And yet, the warnings persist.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

SecureWorld News

The figure below shows Maui command line usage details: The report continues: "Embedded usage instructions and the assessed use of a builder is common when there is an operational separation between developers and users of a malware family. Implementing HIPAA security measures can prevent the introduction of malware on the system.".

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Searching for Susy Thunder

The Verge

In the cultural imagination, they’re often antisocial, malevolent figures — usually male — whose obsession with the technical minutiae of computer systems leaves them wholly under-equipped for human interaction. But few major hacks are pulled off without some old-fashioned social skills. They can be bilked, bamboozled, and bribed.

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