Flipper Blackhat – July Roundup
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In 2009, a surgeon named Atul Gawande and a team backed by the World Health Organization showed that a 19-item surgical checklist could cut complications and deaths by dramatic margins across eight hospitals worldwide. Not a thousand-page protocol. Not a comprehensive framework. Nineteen items, printed on a single card. Aviation learned the same lesson decades…
Russian state-sponsored cybercriminals exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Zimbra email and collaboration platform to conduct espionage against Western targets, primarily military and government agencies, according to a recent report by Tech Radar.Proofpoint reports that the threat group TA488, also known as Laundry Bear or Void Blizzard, leveraged a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, tracked as…
EFF’s first EFFecting Change livestream was all the way back in July of 2024. Maybe you’ve caught each stream, or maybe you’ve only caught a few. Or maybe you’re like me and prefer to listen to conversations like these on your daily commute! Either way, if you want to stay on top of these monthly…
Last week, the House voted on the KIDS Act, a disjointed package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package combines a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), with several other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements, and new regulations. Different parts of the bill pressure online…
A security researcher using the “Nightmare Eclipse” handle has released a Windows zero-day exploit dubbed LegacyHive that allows attackers to escalate privileges on up-to-date Windows systems. Nightmare Eclipse published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit hours after Microsoft released its July 2026 Patch Tuesday updates, saying that it abuses a security vulnerability in the Windows User Profile…
Orwell’s 1984 imagines a dystopia in which nothing is left unseen and captures the psychological consequences of life under constant observation. In the novel, the omnipresent telescreen ensure that privacy was never entirely secure and consequently the possibility of being watched was sufficient to shape behavior. The advent of smart glasses inverts Orwell’s nightmare; the…