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Security

Twitter Hacker Faces 77 Years in Prison

This video from Seytonic covers the latest in security news. Sources: https://www.hackread.com/british-hacker-guilty-hacking-schemes/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-plugwalkjoe-pleads-guilty-to-2020-twitter-breach/ https://thehackernews.com/2023/05/mastermind-behind-twitter-2020-hack.html https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/twitter-hacker-cops-to-cybercrimes-extradited-to-us-for-trial- https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/05/10/guilty_plea_twitter_o_connor_case/ https://therecord.media/twitter-hack-guilty-plea-sim-swapping-cyberstalking https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/uk-citizen-extradited-and-pleads-guilty-cyber-crime-offenses https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-arrested-connection-alleged-role-twitter-hack https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/twitter-hackers-interview.html?action=click&module=Top https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/press-release/file/1413571/download https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/plugwalkjoe-does-the-perp-walk/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/i-was-a-teenage-twitter-hacker-graham-ivan-clark-gets-3-year-sentence/

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Apple Security

How Spyware is Exploiting Calendar Apps to Hack iPhones

This video from Seytonic explores a massive hole in iPhone security. Sources: https://citizenlab.ca/2023/04/spyware-vendor-quadream-exploits-victims-customers/ https://www.hackread.com/quadream-israeli-cyber-mercenary-iphone-hacks/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/04/11/dev-0196-quadreams-kingspawn-malware-used-to-target-civil-society-in-europe-north-america-the-middle-east-and-southeast-asia/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/iphones-hacked-via-invisible-calendar-invites-to-drop-quadream-spyware/ https://securityaffairs.com/144723/malware/quadream-spyware.html https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/microsoft-nso-group-like-quadream-actor-selling-mobile-spyware-governments https://thehackernews.com/2023/04/israel-based-spyware-firm-quadream.html https://therecord.media/israeli-spyware-company-quadream-surveilling-journalists https://www.cyberkendra.com/2023/04/quadream-spyware-used-to-target.html https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hy78kiym2

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Security

Reverse Engineering a Virus Downloaded from Discord – A Cautionary Tale

This video is from Low Level Learning. A hacker put malware on a Discord server that I hang out on, so naturally I downloaded it to see what it did. Instead of just running the software, I tried to reverse engineer it to get a peek underneath the hood at the assembly and see what […]

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Current Events Security

Live TV Hacked In Iran…

The world is getting stranger by the day. Here’s a roundup of the recent cybersecurity news — including a recent live TV hack in Iran. 0:00 Intro 0:17 Hackers Take Over Live TV In Iran 2:36 Teenage Arrested in Connection with Optus Hack 6:07 Uber Exec Found Guilty of Hack Coverup 9:17 Octopart

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Security

Anonymous Hacks China Government Website (Twice)

Top news in the security space. 0:00 Anonymous Hacks China (Again) 2:41 Microsoft Kills Malicious Documents 6:20 Altium Outro

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Microsoft

How to use Camera Effects & Lenses in Microsoft Teams

Kevin Stratvert shows us in this step-by-step tutorial how to make your Microsoft Teams meetings more fun with various camera effects, filters, and video virtual backgrounds by using SnapChat’s Snap Camera app for Windows and Mac PCs.

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Interesting

Top 10 Video Camera Hacks in Zoom

Kevin Stratvert shows us 10 video camera hacks that you can use in Zoom Video Conferencing right now. Some of these hacks work without any additional tools, and a few work with third party tools, like Snap Camera, OBS, and PowerPoint.

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Maker Raspberry Pi

Build an Off-the-Grid Wi-Fi System for Voice Communications

Null Byte explains how to Use Android & Raspberry Pi for Local Voice communications. It can be difficult to communicate off the grid when there’s no infrastructure. That’s also true when you’re in situations where there is no cellular service or reliable Wi-Fi hotspots, such as a convoy of vehicles that want to talk to […]

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