Oracle’s HUGE Ad Data Graph is ‘Illegal Panopticon’ — 5 BILLION People Big - Security Boulevard

Does Redwood City Have Limits?
Oracle “illegally” collects and links data about you, selling it to the highest bidder—all without your consent. Online and offline, your privacy is invaded daily—so says a California class action lawsuit.

3/ Stuff just got real, #AdTech industry.

In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we draw back the #SurveillanceCapitalism curtain.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/7DO00ddXzb

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) August 23, 2022

NSO Group Fires CEO — and 100 Staff — in Spyware ‘Streamlining’ - Security Boulevard

NSO CEO Go — NSO now ‘NO’?
NSO, notorious producer of the Pegasus nation-state spyware, is struggling. So it’s dumped its CEO, Shalev Hulio, and around 100 employees.

Is this the end for @NSOGroup?

In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we wave goodbye to the “S” in #NSO.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/t9RkgXIYSi

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) August 22, 2022

VPNs Don’t Work on iOS — and Apple Doesn’t Care - Security Boulevard

VPN: The P is for PR — bad PR
“VPNs on iOS are a scam.” That’s what an angry security researcher would have you believe. He’s fed up of reproducing and documenting a serious iOS bug that Apple just won’t fix.

What use is a VPN that randomly leaks data?

In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we pit @DefensiveComput vs. @Tim_Cook.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/BAjWNngfIO

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) August 19, 2022

Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: Summer’s lease hath all too short a date

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ #Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse,
2⃣ This prod is even worse than yours.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/azrc6nOTCd #DevOps @NASA @NASAJPL @MarsCuriosity

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) August 18, 2022

Just for devs: Best of Black Hat and DEF CON - ReversingLabs

Hacker summer camp is back, baby: Lots happened in Vegas last week. Most of it should have stayed in Vegas. But some of it bears digging out from piles of mediocre nonsense.

I’ll peruse the news of the week … so you don’t have to.

In this week’s #SSBlogwatch we sort the heat from the chai.

For @ReversingLabs’ @SecuredSoftware: https://t.co/H6DUkWpZlU #AEPICLeak #Electron

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) August 18, 2022