The massive Twitter compromise that hit Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and Apple wasn’t a sophisticated zero-day — it was social engineering targeting internal tools. That’s the scary part.
Home IoT device sales have surged during lockdowns, and every one of those devices just joined a corporate network via VPN. The security implications are significant.
The Washington Post reveals the CIA secretly owned Crypto AG for decades, selling compromised encryption to governments worldwide. The supply chain trust implications are staggering.
The NSA disclosed CVE-2020-0601, a critical vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI’s certificate validation. The fact that they reported it instead of hoarding it marks a notable shift.