The Weekly Accountability 4

25 Jul 2021

Security

The iphone bug which caused WiFi to stop working has been found to be capable of remote code execution. Apple has now fixed the bug with a security update More
Citizen lab’s report on Candiru, an Israel based company which sells spyware to governments. More
Kaseya has obtained the decryptor for the victims of the supply chain ransomware attack that happened few weeks back. More
An overview of consent phishing, a new kind of phishing used to bypass 2FA on accounts. More

Google has broken ChromeOS authentication via an update due to a code error. It has subsequently rolled out a fix but users were not able to login to their existing accounts until the new update was pushed. More
An interesting calculation on how much markup AWS puts on their internet services. More
Facebook’s experiences of upgrading their MySQL version to 8.0 More

Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company has been established with a focus on industrial robots and improving them using AI. More
An article explaining why “I have nothing to hide” is a wrong way to think about surveillance. More
Google has a new feature that shows people why a specific search result was shown. More
Another DNS outage, this time in Akamai, has resulted in major sites like Airbnb, Steam, Lastpass going down. More