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Sunday, August 13th Hack-A-Sat 4 Awards CeremonyHack-A-Sat 4 Team Hacking Satellites: Houston, We Have a ProblemJacob Oakley The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) is a big part of Hack-A-Sat 4. Further virtual resources for engaging the event virtuall can he found at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-era-space-cybersecurity-begins-hack-a-sat/ Featured Image Source: AFRL https://oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03/for-the-first-time-defcon-2023-hack-a-sat-includes-a-real-time-cubesat-orbiting-space/
Friday, August 11th
Friday, August 11th
Friday, August 11th through Sunday, August 13th
In 2020, the U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) established its private sector partnership program dubbed UNDER ADVISEMENT, the purpose of which is to engage industry organizations and share critical cyber threat information and intelligence that supports both CYBERCOM missions and the private sector’s cybersecurity priorities. According to CYBERCOM’s website, formal agreements are made with private sector stakeholders in…
DARPA is calling on top computer scientists, AI experts, software developers, and beyond to participate in the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a 2-year competition focused on automatically finding and fixing vulnerabilities to secure the nation’s most critical software.
Join us at our totally rad 90’s party, hosted by QuintessenceLabs Hosted by QuintessenceLabs and co-sponsored by OODA LLC and co-the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)®️️. Enabled by the incredible team at KATZCY and PlayCyber.
This talk will present the first public disclosure and security analysis of TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio): a European standard for trunked radio globally used by government agencies, police, prisons, emergency services and military operators. Additionally, TETRA is widely deployed in industrial environments such as factory campuses, harbor container terminals and airports, as well as critical…
Once again, Robert Stratton will be participating as a judge in Black Hat 2023 Startup Spotlight.
The White House recently announced “a request for information (RFI) on cybersecurity regulatory harmonization and regulatory reciprocity. The RFI builds on the commitment the Administration made in the National Cybersecurity Strategy to ‘harmonize not only regulations and rules, but also assessments and audits of regulated entities.’
We recently contextualized two “ransomware hotspots” – with geopolitical strategic implications in the U.S. and in the Pacific Islands – as battlefields in the Global Cyber War. Ransomware extortions are also at a record high in 2023, with “Big Game Hunting” and geopolitics as drivers. According to a recent report by Cloudfare, add a surge…
Editor’s note: Scott is part of our OODA network. It has been great meeting with him in person and interacting with several of his CEOs as well. Since we clearly have to focus more 0n material’s science here at OODA Loop when we saw him posting on the topic at LinkedIn we asked if we…
The July OODA Network Member call was held on Friday, July 21st, 2023. Part II of the presentation by Dr. Lilly and the OODA Network discussion that ensued at the July meeting is available here.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany has called for a confidence vote in Parliament. This is the first formal step he has taken towards disbanding the German government. It will lead to snap elections which are likely to result in Scholz’s removal from office. The parliamentary vote will take place on Monday. The breakup of the…
Europol has dismantled 27 services used to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as part of a global law enforcement operation. The platforms have been taken offline. This operation occurred as part of an international, multi-year exercise called PowerOFF. Europol coordinated the operation along with 15 other countries. Three administrators associated with the illicit platforms have…
Academic researchers have created a new attack which uses cheap equipment to break AMD’s latest protections. The attack is called BadRAM and only costs $10 to enact. Using cheap equipment, this attack can break AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging. This is a cutting-edge memory integrity protection that uses encryption and isolation to prevent leaks…
Cybersecurity researchers have found a new Android tool, called EagleMsgSpy, that functions as a surveillance program. The researchers suspect that Chinese police departments are lawfully using the tool to gather information from mobile devices. The tool has been in use since at least 2017. EagleMsgSpy collects data such as screen recordings, chat messages, audio recordings,…
Google’s next major AI model has arrived to combat a slew of new offerings from OpenAI. On Wednesday, Google announced Gemini 2.0 Flash, which the company says can natively generate images and audio in addition to text. 2.0 Flash can also use third-party apps and services, allowing it to tap into Google Search, execute code,…
GSK has handed over $45 million upfront to fellow London-based firm Relation to help the pharma identify new targets for fibrotic diseases and osteoarthritis. The two-stranded collaboration will see Relation use its disease data sets and the biotech’s “Lab-in-the-Loop” platform to find new targets by drawing upon human genetics, single-cell multi-omics from human tissue, assays…
Companies face a variety of complex challenges in designing and optimizing their supply chains. Increasing their resilience, reducing costs, and improving the quality of their planning are just a few of them. Over the past few decades, advances in information technologies have allowed firms to move from decision-making on the basis of intuition and experience…
Google on Monday announced Willow, its latest, greatest quantum computing chip. The speed and reliability performance claims Google’s made about this chip were newsworthy in themselves, but what really caught the tech industry’s attention was an even wilder claim tucked into the blog post about the chip. Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven wrote in…
Nations and tech giants are investing billions to harness the potential of quantum mechanics for computational tasks previously thought impossible. This race has intensified as quantum computing moves from theoretical possibility to practical reality, with each advancement bringing us closer to solving complex problems in fields ranging from cryptography and drug discovery to climate modelling…
General Motors said on Tuesday that it would stop developing a taxi that can drive itself, ending a yearslong project that the company spent billions of dollars on and leaving the field to competitors like Tesla, Amazon and Waymo. The automaker said it would fold its Cruise subsidiary, which was working on that project, into…
Apple is working with Broadcom to develop its first server chip specially designed for artificial intelligence processing, the Information reported on Wednesday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. The reported move would align the iPhone maker with other big technology companies that have developed their own chips to power compute-heavy AI services and…
On Wednesday, a suicide bombing in Kabul killed the Taliban’s refugee minister and two others. The death of Khalil Haqqani, the minister, is the highest-profile casualty of a bombing in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s return to power. There has not yet been a claim of responsibility for the bombing, which occurred inside the ministry in…
The U.S. military has intercepted missiles and drones fired by the Houthis towards U.S. Navy ships in the Gulf of Aden. The forces were able to fend off the attack from the Yemen-based armed group and escort three commercial vessels through the gulf. The U.S. Central Command said that two destroyers were able to intercept…
Syria’s opposition forces have begun to discuss the formation of a new government. The forces are in talks to take formal control of Syria after capturing large amounts of territory including Damascus. Ahmed al-Sharaa, the opposition leader, met with outgoing Prime Minister Mohammed al-Jalali to discuss the transition. Al-Jalali has agreed to peacefully transfer power.…
Taiwan has raised a high alert in response to China’s deployment of its largest fleet of ships in decades. China deployed naval and Coast Guard ships without prior notice. Tensions are rising in the region due to the U.S.’s continuous support for Taiwan. On Tuesday, China conducted its largest maritime operations in nearly decades near…
The Center for Vein Restoration, a vein care provider, has disclosed a recent data breach. Around 446,000 individuals are impacted by the breach, as their personal, medical, and financial information has been compromised. The organization identified the incident on October 6. An attacker was able to gain unauthorized access to files which contained employee and…
A North Korean threat actor has been found to be responsible for an attack on Radiant Capital in October. $50 million was stolen during the heist. On October 16, three developers were infected with malware. Their devices were then used to approve fraudulent transactions, leading to a loss of around $50 million. Radiant has now…
In Operation Digital Eye, Chinese hackers were able to almost breach critical European supply chain companies. The attackers used Microsoft technologies to disguise their malicious activities. The operation took place from late June to July of 2024, when the malicious actor targeted large IT providers in southern Europe. Various cybersecurity vendors and data and infrastructure…
The U.S Department of Treasury has issued new sanctions against a Chinese cybersecurity company. Additionally, the Department of Treasury is sanctioning one of the company’s employees, Guan Tianfeng. The company, Sichuan Silence, was involved in the compromise of tens of thousands of firewalls around the world in April 2020. U.S. companies supporting critical infrastructure were…
In the tiny kingdom of Bhutan, dozens of data experts perfect artificial intelligence models from offices framed by majestic Himalayan peaks. The employees at iMerit aren’t there to train AI in rudimentary tasks like recognizing “brown cat on a windowsill” in an image. Instead, they’re teaching algorithms the anatomy of the human eye or how…
Sodium battery chemistry strikes again. The potential future alternative to lithium-ion is making significant research inroads into developing future long-duration energy storage solutions. Inlyte Energy this month reported it has achieved advanced results in its iron-sodium battery technology, which will help the company to address the crucial electricity megatrends: low-cost renewable energy integration, efficient industrial…
The Defense Ministry has approved the new Droid TW 12.7 robotics complex, used on a tracked platform with a Browning 12.7 mm machine gun, for combat operations, the ministry announced on Dec. 9. The system was approved after performing reliably in combat testing, the ministry said. “In the conditions of modern warfare, technologies play a…
China’s escalating conflict with the US over trade is now extending to the drones that have become a vital part of Ukraine’s defense. Manufacturers in China recently began limiting sales to the US and Europe of key components used to build unmanned aerial vehicles, according to multiple people with knowledge of the developments, who asked…
Aqemia, a French startup that’s meshing “quantum-inspired physics” with machine learning to find new drugs, has raised $38 million in a fresh round of funding led by San Francisco-based VC firm Cathay Innovation. This is Aqemia’s second fundraise of the year — it announced a €30 million ($31.5 million) raise back in January — and…
OpenAI said Monday it’s releasing its buzzy AI video-generation tool, Sora, later in the day. The AI video-generation model works similarly to OpenAI’s image-generation AI tool, DALL-E: A user types out a desired scene, and Sora will return a high-definition video clip. Sora can also generate video clips inspired by still images and extend existing…
Google’s quantum computing lab just achieved a major milestone. On Monday, the company revealed that its new quantum computing chip, Willow, is capable of performing a computing challenge in less than five minutes — a process Google says would take one of the world’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years, or longer than the age of…
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Several European countries have suspended asylum processing for Syrian migrants. Germany, Austria, and other European countries have announced that asylum applications for Syrian migrants would be paused. The decision was made on the basis that the situation in Syria is unclear and more time is needed to see how the situation develops. Germany authorities say…
Australia and Nauru signed an agreement which allows Australia to veto agreements between Nauru and other countries. Australia and Nauru have signed a new agreement which will see Australia massively increase its financial support to Nauru. In exchange, Nauru has given Australia the ability to veto agreements Nauru may make with other countries in the…
South Korea’s President has been banned from traveling abroad. The South Korean Justice Ministry has banned from the President from traveling abroad. The travel ban is related to ongoing investigations by several agencies into the martial law decree. Protests calling for the President’s removal have continued and opposition parties have vowed to organize another impeachment…
The EU and Mercosur have reached an agreement on a free trade deal. After 25 years of negotiations, the EU and Mercosur have come to an agreement on a free trade deal. If ratified the deal would create the world’s largest free trade zone. Several European countries have expressed concerns over the deal. France has…
Medical Device Maker Artivion has disclosed that they were the victims of a ransomware attack. Artivion, a medical device manufacturer, has disclosed that they were the victims of a ransomware attack in November. The attack impacted the firm’s shipping and internal operations. The firm has not disclosed any details about the attack. No known ransomware…
Russian hackers have been found to be stealing from Pakistani hackers. The Russian group, Secret Blizzard, was found to be stealing from the Pakistani group, Storm-0156. The Russian hackers used their access to the Pakistani group’s operations to spy on governments across South Asia. The Russian infiltration took place over the course of 2 years…
Datavant, a healthcare IT company, was the victim of a data breach. Datavant, a healthcare IT company, has disclosed that in May the personal data of over 11,000 children was exposed after a phishing attack. Datavant works with 70,000 hospitals and facilities the transfer of records between them. It is not currently known who was…
Russian groups have increased attacks against US water and energy infrastructure . Researchers have observed that Russian groups have increased their attacks against US water and energy infrastructure. The nature of the attacks have also escalated from DDoS attacks and website defacement to manipulating physical infrastructure to cause long term damage. Russian groups have also…
China’s antimonopoly regulator announced on Monday that it was investigating potential violations of antitrust law by Nvidia, the American company that makes the vast majority of the computer chips that power artificial intelligence systems. The probe, a rare move by Beijing, comes a week after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced…
A blockchain platform and a uranium trading company launched a marketplace on Tuesday to allow small investors to buy physical uranium, hoping to boost spot liquidity in the niche commodity. Uranium has seen a surge in interest from investors and a spike in prices in recent years as miners trimmed output and utilities sought new…
Critical materials (also referred to as critical minerals) – such as cobalt, chromium, copper, graphite, lithium, silver and others – are essential for the needs of the energy transition, because they are increasingly used in the production of clean energy technologies, namely solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and electric cars. Having access to and ensuring…
Artificial intelligence (AI) will transform our lives. It will touch almost every aspect of society: business, education, transportation, medicine, even politics. In most places, this will be a good thing, removing drudgery and improving productivity. But there is one place that I fear its arrival, and that is in the military. The world will be…
China unveiled its most advanced quantum computer to date on Thursday, marking cutting another notch in the nation’s push to lead the global race in quantum computing, according to a statement from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which appears to reflect preliminary information from the Xinhua News Agency, the official state news agency of the…
As more AI companies gobble up Reddit’s data to fuel their own chatbots, the popular online forum site has begun testing a new conversational AI feature of its own. The feature, called Reddit Answers, allows visitors to ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and threads across the platform, the company announced on…
Generative artificial intelligence probably won’t change your life in 2025 — at least, not more than it already has, according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. When OpenAI launched ChatGPT two years ago, generative AI quickly captured the imagination of users around the world. Now, with the industry’s competitive landscape somewhat established — multiple big tech…
Taiwan’s military has raised the alert level to “high” as nearly 90 Chinese navy and coast guard ships were reported near Taiwan, the southern Japanese islands and the East and South China Seas amid reports of a possible Chinese military drill. In a statement on Monday, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) said it launched…
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has announced that the United States will provide nearly $1bn in additional military aid to bolster Ukraine’s defences amid its years-long fight against Russia’s invasion. The latest announcement includes drones and munitions for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARs) that the US has previously provided. In total, the US…
For President Biden, the fall of Syria’s tyrant on Sunday was a moment to cheer what he called a “fundamental act of justice.” Biden is now presented with a challenge. The main rebel faction that toppled President Bashar al-Assad is a group called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which was once an affiliate of Al Qaeda and,…
The Turkish military fired on U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in northern Syria this weekend, illuminating the tangle of competing interests and alliances in Syria in the wake of the government’s collapse. Fighting erupted on Saturday in Manbij, a Kurdish-controlled city near Syria’s border with Turkey, between rebel groups, one backed by the United States and the…
Deloitte has issued a statement in response to Brain Cipher ransomware group’s claim of stealing over 1 terabyte of information belonging to the company. The hackers are threatening to make the stolen files available in five days from now, unless a ransom is paid. “We are aware of the claims by the threat actor,” a…
Just a few days after the FBI warned iPhone users to stop texting Android users, given the lack of encryption in RCS, the Bureau has now confirmed that U.S. law enforcement wants access to encrypted iPhone content. Apple is being sued for not scanning encrypted user content for dangerous material. The net result is that…
Healthcare company Atrium Health has notified the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of a data breach impacting 585,000 individuals. The notification is likely related to an issue involving online tracking technologies that were present on an Atrium Health patient portal between 2015 and 2019. The technologies may have transmitted certain personal information…
Three years after demonstrating a water-powered robotic arm that could lift a 7kg dumbbell, Clone Robotics is making its boldest move yet into the humanoid robot market. The company has begun accepting preorders for Clone Alpha, positioning it as a distinctly different approach from competitors like Tesla’s Optimus or Figure 01. What sets Clone Alpha…
Kronos Bio, a San Mateo biotech company, is losing millions of dollars a month and recently had to discontinue its sole clinical-stage compound because of adverse side effects. Now, the company is laying off the vast majority of its remaining workers. Kronos announced an 83% layoff in a Nov. 27 filing with the Securities and…
OpenAI is in discussions to ditch a provision that shuts Microsoft out of its most advanced models when the start-up achieves “artificial general intelligence”, as it seeks to unlock billions of dollars of future investment. Under current terms, when OpenAI creates AGI — defined as a “highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically…
China’s trade restrictions on strategic minerals are starting to hit Western companies where it hurts. Blaming Beijing’s curbs on antimony exports announced in August, German chemicals and consumer goods heavyweight Henkel told customers last month it had declared force majeure and suspended deliveries of four types of adhesives and lubricants widely used by automakers, according…
IonQ has announced the launch of its first European quantum computer, Forte Enterprise, hosted at its new data center in Arlesheim, Switzerland, through a partnership with QuantumBasel. This marks IonQ’s first quantum system for commercial use outside the U.S., providing local access to its most advanced quantum capabilities for European enterprises, governments, and researchers. Forte…
At the end of last month, I attended an inaugural conference in Berkeley named the Curve. The idea was to bring together engineers at big tech companies, independent safety researchers, academics, nonprofit leaders, and people who have worked in government to discuss the biggest questions of the day in artificial intelligence: Does AI pose an…
Uber launched a robotaxi service with its partner WeRide in Abu Dhabi, its first international effort to make a wide number of autonomous vehicles from different operators available on its platform. Customers who use Uber to book a ride will be presented with the option to hail an autonomous vehicle from WeRide. Fares will be…
Cuban authorities have repaired the power grid and resumed normal operating schedules. Cuban authorities have repaired the power grid and resumed normal operating schedules. Power grid failures have been increasingly common as the nation’s infrastructure continues to deteriorate. Authorities have said that daily blackouts will continue to occur to mitigate issues with the power grid.…
An Israeli court has rejected Netanyahu’s request to limit how much he’ll testify. An Israeli court has found that there is no compelling reason to limit the amount of time Netanyahu will have to testify. Netanyahu has been charged with corruption related crimes and successfully delayed his trial for several years. Netanyahu’s lawyer had argued…
Macron has vowed to remain in office and appoint a new prime minister. In an address to the nation, Macron said he would not step down as President and would name a new prime minister. This comes after the french National Assembly passed a vote of no confidence in the government and forced the prime…
Negotiations over a EU-Mercosur trade deal have entered the final stages. EU leaders have begun talks with South American representatives on the final terms of an EU-Mercosur trade deal. The trade deal would see trade barriers between two of the worlds largest trading blocs reduced. There remains several opponents to the deal in Europe with…
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