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January 3, 2025

January 3, 2025

January 3, 2025

Interested in all the new macOS malware of 2024!? 🍎🐛

I've started my annual "The Mac Malware of " report.

Each day, I'll be adding details of a new (for '24) malware ...including its infection vector, persistence, & capabilities.

Follow:https://t.co/gWpjkBZ5UT

— Patrick Wardle (@patrickwardle) January 2, 2025


2001: The documentary film "The Secret History of Hacking" had its TV premiere. Covering computer hacking, phreaking, and social engineering, the film featured Steve Wozniak, Captain Crunch, and Kevin Mitnick. Watch the 50 minute film: https://t.co/pXKy8PSvIp pic.twitter.com/z71BiRlGLk

— Today In Infosec (@todayininfosec) January 1, 2025


China's cyber intrusions took a sinister turn in 2024

lol

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/31/china_cyber_intrusions_2024/


The 84 year old partner whose name is on the outside of the building: https://t.co/cCAhTrF03Y

— Karen, Esq. (@comradeflirty) January 2, 2025


Rudy uses protonmail?

— Matthew Garrett (@mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip) 2025-01-03T06:16:18.246Z


🚨 Researchers have exposed MUT-1244, a campaign that stole 390,000+ WordPress credentials, SSH keys, and AWS keys. Victims included security pros tricked by trojanized GitHub repos and fake kernel updates.

Bugcrowd’s Casey Ellis warns: "Security pros are part of an exploitable…

— bugcrowd (@Bugcrowd) December 30, 2024


Micah Lee: ""Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a …" - Infosec Exchange

"Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted ads." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/apple-agrees-to-pay-95m-delete-private-conversations-siri-recorded/


Deep ASCII by Vuk Ćosić - Collection - Le Random

Le Random is building a digital generative art institution.


iTerm2 security update

https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2-3_5_11.changelog


Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …


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