Hacker News with Generative AI: Information Security

Security Teams Fail (lcamtuf.substack.com)
I spent 25 years working in information security. I published research, authored books, and led large security teams for publicly-traded companies. That said, when I kicked off this Substack in 2022, I wanted to try something different — so with few exceptions, I shied away from infosec punditry.

Cybersecurity, Information Security, Substack, Opinion

10 points by zdw 10 days ago | 1 comments

Agencies with investigations into Musk's companies with staffing cuts (infosec.exchange)

Elon Musk, Companies, Investigations, Staffing Cuts, Information Security

3 points by doener 10 days ago | 0 comments

Deep Fake Detector Extension by Mozilla Firefox (mozilla.org)
The Fakespot Deepfake Detector extension will help you sort out text written by humans from text that has been created using AI tools.

AI, Browser Extensions, Mozilla Firefox, Information Security

67 points by Topfi 14 days ago | 36 comments

Brian Krebs with some background on the story about Edward Coristine (infosec.exchange)

Cybersecurity, Information Security, Data Breaches, Privacy

9 points by qrios 16 days ago | 0 comments

Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle (lcamtuf.substack.com)
When it comes to information security headlines, a good rule of thumb is that claims about about widespread supply-chain sabotage are usually false.

Information Security, Hardware, Supply Chain

508 points by zdw 36 days ago | 169 comments

Help me find a blogpost I saw here once (ycombinator.com)
Within the past 2 years. It was specifically about correlating information obtained from dumps of breached websites to identify users and take advantage of password reuse to hack accounts.

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Password Security, Information Security, User Privacy

6 points by branon 59 days ago | 2 comments

Deception for Information Security Blog (bluepillsecurity.com)
Definitions of important terms in deception-for-security

Cybersecurity, Information Security, Deception Technology

7 points by koins 142 days ago | 1 comments

CMMC 2.0: A Well-Intentioned Misstep in Cybersecurity (nationaldefensemagazine.org)

Cybersecurity, Government Regulations, Information Security

6 points by ohjeez 149 days ago | 0 comments

5 Years of InfoSec Focused Homelabbing (archcloudlabs.com)

Cybersecurity, Homelabbing, Information Security

76 points by DLLCoolJ 174 days ago | 3 comments

The Cryptographic Doom Principle (2011) (moxie.org)