Welcome to the Holon Network, a part of DarkNet Project. We are a collaborative experience to gain and share knowledge and understanding, to inspire the next generation of hacker and maker communities, and to ultimately enhance our human experience. Our primary goals are to inspire community efforts in learning new technology and promoting good information security practices.

What is the HOLON Network?

At the https://dcdark.net We have been developing new daemon communities, called Holons. Their goal is to be self-sufficient, using natural energy sources and technologies and creating centers to learn, teach, and play in the technological realm.

This Week In Vulnerabilities:

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of December 21, 2020

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb20-363

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of December 28, 2020

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb21-004

SolarWinds: The more we learn, the worse it looks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/solarwinds-the-more-we-learn-the-worse-it-looks/

Pi-hole Patches Critical Stored XSS Vulnerability
https://blog.mirch.io/2020/12/24/pihole-xss/

Secret Backdoor Account Found in Several Zyxel Firewall, VPN Products

https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/secret-backdoor-account-found-in.html 

https://blog.cloudflare.com/sad-dns-explained/

This Week In Privacy Or Lack Thereof:

WhatsApp Soundly Beaten By Apple’s Stunning New iMessage Update

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/01/03/whatsapp-beaten-by-apples-new-imessage-update-for-iphone-users/

https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5ff07f779f9392c3af404599/960x0.png?fit=scale

Ticketmaster To Pay $10 Million Fine For Hacking A Rival Company 

https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/ticketmaster-to-pay-10-million-fine-for.html

Singapore COVID-19 contact-tracing data accessible to police

https://news.yahoo.com/singapore-covid-19-contact-tracing-094228852.html

This Week In Security:

FBI Warns About Hackers Compromising Smart Devices For Swatting

https://techdator.net/fbi-warns-about-hackers-compromising-smart-devices-for-swatting/

Miscellaneous Stories:

See Boston Dynamics' Robots Bust Freakishly Good Moves On the Dance Floor 

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/21/01/02/2147259/see-boston-dynamics-robots-bust-freakishly-good-moves-on-the-dance-floor 

Bitcoin Surges 25% In One Week. Warren Buffett Still Won't Buy It 

https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/01/03/1844241/bitcoin-surges-25-in-one-week-warren-buffett-still-wont-buy-it

Cool Tools We Found This Week:

Proxmark3 Bluetooth relay standalone mode.

https://twitter.com/Netxing/status/1344747848470970369

Projects For This Week:

Digitaltinker:
Home Assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/blue 

Pi-KVM https://pikvm.org/ 

https://twitter.com/IntelTechniques/status/1345408888477163520?s=09

Welcome to the Holon Network, a part of DarkNet Project. We are a collaborative experience to gain and share knowledge and understanding, to inspire the next generation of hacker and maker communities, and to ultimately enhance our human experience. Our primary goals are to inspire community efforts in learning new technology and promoting good information security practices.

What is the HOLON Network?

At the https://dcdark.net We have been developing new daemon communities, called Holons. Their goal is to be self-sufficient, using natural energy sources and technologies and creating centers to learn, teach, and play in the technological realm.

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of November 16, 2020

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb20-328

Facebook Messenger Bug Lets Hackers Listen to You Before You Pick Up the Call

https://thehackernews.com/2020/11/facebook-messenger-bug-lets-hackers.html

NordVPN: Top 200 most common passwords of the year 2020

https://nordpass.com/most-common-passwords-list/

Walmart-exclusive router and others sold on Amazon & eBay contain hidden backdoors to control devices

https://cybernews.com/security/walmart-exclusive-routers-others-made-in-china-contain-backdoors-to-control-devices/

This Week In Privacy Or Lack Thereof:

Police in Mississippi To Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/police-mississippi-pilot-program-live-stream-amazon-ring-cameras/

Each Chrome extension has to reveal which data it collects and how it processes it from 2021 onward

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/11/19/each-chrome-extension-has-to-reveal-which-data-it-collects-and-how-it-processes-it-from-2021-onward/

Video Analytics User Manuals Are a Guide to Dystopia

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/video-analytics-user-manuals-are-guide-dystopia

Go SMS Pro Messaging App Exposed Users' Private Media Files

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/go-sms-pro-messaging-app-exposed-users-private-media-files/d/d-id/1339492?_mc=rss_x_drr_edt_aud_dr_x_x-rss-simple 

This Week In Security:

Twitch now supports TOTP

https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/two-factor-authentication?language=en_US

CompTIA PenTest+ Is Now DoD Approved

https://www.comptia.org/blog/comptia-pentest-dod-approval

Steal a Tesla x with bluetooth.... 

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-model-x-hack-bluetooth 

Security Pros Push for More Pervasive Threat Modeling

https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/security-pros-push-for-more-pervasive-threat-modeling/d/d-id/1339506?_mc=rss_x_drr_edt_aud_dr_x_x-rss-simple 

https://www.threatmodelingmanifesto.org/  

The Yellow Brick Road to Risk Management

https://www.darkreading.com/risk/the-yellow-brick-road-to-risk-management/a/d-id/1339338?_mc=rss_x_drr_edt_aud_dr_x_x-rss-simple 

Miscellaneous Stories:

Trump fires head of election cybersecurity who debunked conspiracy theories

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/trump-fires-head-u-s-election-cybersecurity-after-he-debunked-n1248063

Cool Tools We Found This Week:

LibreTaxi

https://libretaxi.org/

Panopticlick renamed to Cover Your Tracks

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/introducing-cover-your-tracks

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Projects For This Week:

Upcoming Events:

Deals:

https://protonmail.com/blackfriday

Watch VMWare Sales

Reddit.com/r/Sysadmin: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/jxzbgz/sysadmin_black_friday_deals_2020/

Reddit.com/r/Privacy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/jzrhad/the_rprivacy_black_friday_megapost_add_any_great/

Welcome to the Holon Network, a part of DarkNet Project. We are a collaborative experience to gain and share knowledge and understanding, to inspire the next generation of hacker and maker communities, and to ultimately enhance our human experience. Our primary goals are to inspire community efforts in learning new technology and promoting good information security practices.

What is the HOLON Network?

At the https://dcdark.net We have been developing new daemon communities, called Holons. Their goal is to be self-sufficient, using natural energy sources and technologies and creating centers to learn, teach, and play in the technological realm.

This Week In Vulnerabilities:

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of November 9, 2020

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb20-321

How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home

https://securitylab.github.com/research/Ubuntu-gdm3-accountsservice-LPE

This Week In Privacy Or Lack Thereof:

The iOS Covid App Ecosystem Has Become a Privacy Minefield

An analysis of nearly 500 Covid-related apps worldwide shows major differences in how much data they expect you to give up.

https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-ios-apps-privacy/ 

WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute COVID Research using Oora Ring and companion app to research Covid-19

https://wvumedicine.org/rni/covid19/

Oora Ring: https://ouraring.com/

Building AB685 Compliant Contact-Tracing Systems Using Existing Security Technologies

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/building-ab685-compliant-contact-tracing-systems-using-existing-security-technologies/ 

Demand For Employee Surveillance Increased As Workers Transitioned To Home Working 

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/11/16/2114212/demand-for-employee-surveillance-increased-as-workers-transitioned-to-home-working

The Unicorn Project

https://itrevolution.com/the-unicorn-project/

THE PHOENIX PROJECT, 5TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

https://itrevolution.com/book/the-phoenix-project/ 

This Week In Security:

A Call for Change in Physical Security

https://www.darkreading.com/physical-security/a-call-for-change-in-physical-security/a/d-id/1339312?_mc=rss_x_drr_edt_aud_dr_x_x-rss-simple 

https://github.com/ComodoSecurity/openedr 

Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27W2MB

OnlyKey

https://onlykey.io/blogs/news/onlykey-release-announcement

Miscellaneous Stories:

Youtube-dl Makes Their Case, Returns To GitHub

https://hackaday.com/2020/11/16/youtube-dl-makes-their-case-returns-to-github/

Cool Tools We Found This Week:

Cybrary offering Security+ and Network+ courses for free during November

https://www.cybrary.it/blog/cybrarys-free-courses-november-2020/

Hak5 Sale

https://shop.hak5.org/ 

Protonmail Sale 

https://protonmail.com/ 

Humble

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/java-programming-more-oreilly-books?hmb_source=navbar&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=tile_index_5 

https://github.com/ComodoSecurity/openedr

Projects For This Week:

DT: PinePhone OS Flash

https://calyxos.org/

https://grapheneos.org/ 

https://www.zdnet.com/article/pinephone-kde-linux-phone-is-getting-ready-for-pre-orders/

https://twitter.com/thepine64/status/1328128231984263170

Welcome to the Holon Network, a part of DarkNet Project. We are a collaborative experience to gain and share knowledge and understanding, to inspire the next generation of hacker and maker communities, and to ultimately enhance our human experience. Our primary goals are to inspire community efforts in learning new technology and promoting good information security practices.

What is the HOLON Network?

At the https://dcdark.net We have been developing new daemon communities, called Holons. Their goal is to be self-sufficient, using natural energy sources and technologies and creating centers to learn, teach, and play in the technological realm.

This Week In Vulnerabilities:

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of November 2, 2020

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb20-314

This Week In Privacy Or Lack Thereof:

Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver For Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dell-Hardware-Privacy-Linux

Michigan Voters Demand That Police Get Warrants for Electronic Data
https://reason.com/2020/11/04/michigan-voters-demand-that-police-get-warrants-for-electronic-data/

Apple's Internal IP's Leaked By Its Search Bot

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/20/11/07/0519220/apples-internal-ips-leaked-by-its-search-bot

Apple will require apps to add privacy ‘nutrition labels’ starting December 8th
https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/5/21551926/apple-privacy-developers-nutrition-labels-app-store-ios-14

San Diego’s spying streetlights stuck switched “on,” despite directive

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/san-diegos-spying-streetlights-stuck-switched-on-despite-directive/

Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets

https://www.prowell-tech.com/proctorio-used-dmca-to-take-down-a-students-critical-tweets-prowelltech/

This Week In Security:

Older Android phones will start failing on some secure websites in 2021

https://www.zdnet.com/article/older-android-phones-will-start-failing-on-some-secure-websites-in-2021/

On Older Versions of Android, Many Let's Encrypt-Secured Sites May Stop Working in 2021 

https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/11/08/1654223/on-older-versions-of-android-many-lets-encrypt-secured-sites-may-stop-working-in-2021

Miscellaneous Stories:

EFF Argues RIAA is 'Abusing DMCA' to Take Down YouTube-DL 

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/11/07/0313228/eff-argues-riaa-is-abusing-dmca-to-take-down-youtube-dl

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/20/11/08/193213/iconic-american-quiz-show-host-alex-trebek-dies-at-age-80

Alex Trebek Calls Jeopardy! Contestant a 'Loser' For Her Choice in Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXqEGcYqj_E

Cool Tools We Found This Week:

https://twitter.com/_MG_/status/1325526282805895168?s=09

Welcome to the Holon Network, a part of DarkNet Project. We are a collaborative experience to gain and share knowledge and understanding, to inspire the next generation of hacker and maker communities, and to ultimately enhance our human experience. Our primary goals are to inspire community efforts in learning new technology and promoting good information security practices.

What is the HOLON Network?

At the https://dcdark.net We have been developing new daemon communities, called Holons. Their goal is to be self-sufficient, using natural energy sources and technologies and creating centers to learn, teach, and play in the technological realm.

This Week In Vulnerabilities:

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of October 26, 2020

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb20-307

Google discloses Windows zero-day exploited in the wild

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-discloses-windows-zero-day-exploited-in-the-wild/

This Week In Privacy Or Lack Thereof:

Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting

https://nitter.net/AlexanderAbdo/status/1319761452832534531

This Week In Security:

New NAT/Firewall Bypass Attack Lets Hackers Access Any TCP/UDP Service 

https://thehackernews.com/2020/11/new-natfirewall-bypass-attack-lets.html 

In a first, researchers extract secret key used to encrypt Intel CPU code

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/10/in-a-first-researchers-extract-secret-key-used-to-encrypt-intel-cpu-code/

Miscellaneous Stories:

Dr. Strangenet—or, how I stopped worrying and embraced the WFH IT apocalypse

https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/11/future-of-collaboration-03/

SiFive Unveils Plan For Linux PCs With RISC-V Processors 

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/11/02/238244/sifive-unveils-plan-for-linux-pcs-with-risc-v-processors

Cool Tools We Found This Week:

De-Googled app compatibility

https://plexus.techlore.tech/

Vulcan Remedy Cloud
https://www.remedy-cloud.com/

Raspberry Pi 400

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/?resellerType=home

https://imgur.com/gallery/knY8l

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/

Projects For This Week:

Go Vote:

https://www.vote.org/

Welcome to the Holon Network, a part of DarkNet Project. We are a collaborative experience to gain and share knowledge and understanding, to inspire the next generation of hacker and maker communities, and to ultimately enhance our human experience. Our primary goals are to inspire community efforts in learning new technology and promoting good information security practices.

What is the HOLON Network?

At the https://dcdark.net We have been developing new daemon communities, called Holons. Their goal is to be self-sufficient, using natural energy sources and technologies and creating centers to learn, teach, and play in the technological realm.

This Week In Vulnerabilities:

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of October 19, 2020

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb20-300

This Week In Privacy Or Lack Thereof:

Microsoft did some research. Now it's angry about what it found
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/microsoft-did-some-research-now-its-angry-about-what-it-found/

Surveillance Startup Used Own Cameras to Harass Coworkers

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdyqm/surveillance-startup-used-own-cameras-to-harass-coworkers

This Week In Security:

Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/zoom-deleted-events-censorship

Hackers must have a 197 IQ score

https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1318318732054122496

Trump’s Twitter Hacker Dismisses White House Denials, Says He Has ‘Evidence’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/10/25/trumps-twitter-hacker-dismisses-white-house-denials-says-he-has-evidence/#36358da83785

Trump’s Twitter Hacker Dismisses White House Denials, Says He Has ‘Evidence’
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/hacker-says-he-correctly-guessed-trumps-twitter-password-it-was-maga2020/

Experts Warn of Privacy Risks Caused by Link Previews in Messaging Apps

https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/mobile-messaging-apps.html

Miscellaneous Stories:

GitHub boots popular YouTube download tool after RIAA claim

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/github-boots-popular-youtube-download-tool-after-riaa-claim/

Cool Tools We Found This Week:

Blacklight - A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector

https://themarkup.org/blacklight

Relativty Open Source VR: https://www.relativty.com/

Projects For This Week:

Raspberry PI USB Boot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tTFgrOCsig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxuKqBYvDQs

Security Onion install

https://securityonionsolutions.com/ 

https://xkcd.com/2377/

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21503324/john-mcafee-indicted-tax-evasion-sued-doj-sec

Welcome to the Holon Network, a part of DarkNet Project. We are a collaborative experience to gain and share knowledge and understanding, to inspire the next generation of hacker and maker communities, and to ultimately enhance our human experience. Our primary goals are to inspire community efforts in learning new technology and promoting good information security practices.

What is the HOLON Network?

At the https://dcdark.net We have been developing new daemon communities, called Holons. Their goal is to be self-sufficient, using natural energy sources and technologies and creating centers to learn, teach, and play in the technological realm.

This Week In Vulnerabilities:

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of October 12, 2020

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb20-293

Google Warns of Zero-Click Bluetooth Flaws in Linux-based Devices

https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/linux-Bluetooth-hacking.html

Microsoft releases emergency security updates for Windows and Visual Studio

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-releases-emergency-security-updates-for-windows-and-visual-studio/

This Week In Privacy Or Lack Thereof:

Your Technology Is Tracking You. Take These Steps For Better Online Privacy

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/922262686/your-technology-is-tracking-you-take-these-steps-for-better-online-privacy

Password Managers: What You Need to Know

https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2018/password-manager-identity-protection.html

Thousands of infected IoT devices used in for-profit anonymity service

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/thousands-of-infected-iot-devices-used-in-for-profit-anonymity-service/

This Week In Security:

GitHub rolls out new Code Scanning security feature to all users

https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-rolls-out-new-code-scanning-security-feature-to-all-users/

Miscellaneous Stories:

PoC||GTFO, Volume 3 | No Starch Press

https://nostarch.com/gtfo3 

Cool Tools We Found This Week:

Projects For This Week:

Security Onion 2 has been released

https://securityonionsolutions.com/ 

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25 

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-compute-module-4/ 

du -h --max-depth=1

Welcome to the Holon Network, a part of DarkNet Project. We are a collaborative experience to gain and share knowledge and understanding, to inspire the next generation of hacker and maker communities, and to ultimately enhance our human experience. Our primary goals are to inspire community efforts in learning new technology and promoting good information security practices.

What is the HOLON Network?

At the https://dcdark.net We have been developing new daemon communities, called Holons. Their goal is to be self-sufficient, using natural energy sources and technologies and creating centers to learn, teach, and play in the technological realm.

This Week In Vulnerabilities:

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of October 5, 2020
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb20-286

[gater] Apple's T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-t2-chip-unfixable-flaw-jailbreak-mac/ 

This Week In Privacy Or Lack Thereof:

Portland passes broadest facial recognition ban in the US

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/tech/portland-facial-recognition-ban/index.html

Backdoorer the Xplora: Kids' smart-watches can secretly take pics, record audio on command by encrypted texts

https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/12/xplora_4_smartwatches/

Why EFF Doesn’t Support California Proposition 24

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/why-eff-doesnt-support-cal-prop-24

This Week In Security:

Apple pays $288,000 to white-hat hackers who had run of company’s network

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/white-hat-hackers-who-had-control-of-internal-apple-network-get-288000-reward/

Miscellaneous Stories:

Sony releases official PS5 teardown video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaAY-jAjm0w

DT’s listening phone story

https://opensource.com/article/18/7/wallabag 

Cool Tools We Found This Week:

Humble Book Bundle: AWS, Azure, Google, and Cloud Security

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/aws-azure-google-and-cloud-security-books

Libre AweSim
https://puri.sm/products/librem-awesim/

Utopia Project
https://u.is/en

Nebula mesh Networking 

https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

https://slack.engineering/introducing-nebula-the-open-source-global-overlay-network-from-slack/ 

Welcome to the Holon Network, a part of DarkNet Project. We are a collaborative experience to gain and share knowledge and understanding, to inspire the next generation of hacker and maker communities, and to ultimately enhance our human experience. Our primary goals are to inspire community efforts in learning new technology and promoting good information security practices.

What is the HOLON Network?

At the https://dcdark.net We have been developing new daemon communities, called Holons. Their goal is to be self-sufficient, using natural energy sources and technologies and creating centers to learn, teach, and play in the technological realm.

This Week In Vulnerabilities:

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of September 28, 2020

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb20-279

New Flaws in Top Antivirus Softwares Could Make Computers More Vulnerable

https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/antivirus-software-vulnerabilities.html

Excel spreadsheet blunder blamed as Covid testing glitch 'may have led to missed cases'
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/covid-testing-technical-issue-excel-spreadsheet-a4563616.html

This Week In Privacy Or Lack Thereof:

Meet the Star Witness: Your Smart Speaker

https://www.wired.com/story/star-witness-your-smart-speaker/

Tell the Department of Homeland Security: Stop Collecting DNA and other Biometrics

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/tell-department-homeland-security-stop-collecting-dna-and-other-biometrics 

Come Back with a Warrant for my Virtual House

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/come-back-warrant-my-virtual-house 

Urgent: EARN IT Act Introduced in House of Representatives

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/urgent-earn-it-act-introduced-house-representatives 

This Week In Security:

Miscellaneous Stories:

EU could force Apple to share user data with competitors

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/10/01/eu-could-force-apple-to-share-user-data-with-competitors

Cool Tools We Found This Week:

nMap 7.90 released with NPCap 1.0

https://nmap.org/download.html

Projects For This Week:

Nextcloud Hub 20 Release with new Dashboard feature

https://nextcloud.com/

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub-20-debuts-dashboard-unifies-search-and-notifications-integrates-with-other-technologies/

https://www.f-droid.org/

Welcome to the Holon Network, a part of DarkNet Project. We are a collaborative experience to gain and share knowledge and understanding, to inspire the next generation of hacker and maker communities, and to ultimately enhance our human experience. Our primary goals are to inspire community efforts in learning new technology and promoting good information security practices.

What is the HOLON Network?

At the https://dcdark.net We have been developing new daemon communities, called Holons. Their goal is to be self-sufficient, using natural energy sources and technologies and creating centers to learn, teach, and play in the technological realm.

This Week In Vulnerabilities:

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of September 21, 2020

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb20-272

Analysis Report (AR20-268A) - Federal Agency Compromised by Malicious Cyber Actor
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/analysis-reports/ar20-268a

https://www.zdnet.com/article/cisa-says-a-hacker-breached-a-federal-agency/

This Week In Privacy Or Lack Thereof:

Amazon Pitches New Palm Scanning Tech For Stadiums, Offices As Consumer Privacy Concerns Linger

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karenrobinsonjacobs/2020/09/29/amazon-pitches-new-palm-scanning-tech-for-stadiums-offices-as-consumer-privacy-concerns-linger/

https://kinexon.com/safezone

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/21/nfl-nba-to-use-safezone-tags-for-coronavirus-contact-tracing.html 

Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/homeland-security-portland/tnamp/ 

Ring Always Home Cam indoor security drone: What you need to know

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/ring-always-home-cam-indoor-security-drone-what-you-need-to-know/

Ring Mailbox Sensor: Amazon will alert you if someone steals your mail

https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-ring-mailbox-sensor-30-dollars-quietly-introduced-alert-if-someone-steals-mail/

This Week In Security:

Windows XP source code leaks online

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/25/21455655/microsoft-windows-xp-source-code-leak

Fortinet VPN with Default Settings Leave 200,000 Businesses Open to Hackers

https://thehackernews.com/2020/09/fortigate-vpn-security.html 

Twitter warns developers that their private keys and account tokens may have been exposed

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/25/twitter-developer-keys-exposed/ 

Miscellaneous Stories:

Firefox to remove support for the FTP protocol

https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-remove-support-for-the-ftp-protocol/

Cool Tools We Found This Week:

Bunnie’s Betrusted Makes First Appearance As Mobile, FPGA-Based SoC Development Kit
https://hackaday.com/2020/09/29/bunnies-betrusted-makes-first-appearance-as-mobile-fpga-based-soc-development-kit/

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor 

WIreshark Dev 3.3.0

https://www.wireshark.org/

Cloudfree

https://cloudfree.shop/

Projects For This Week:

PFSense router

Flashing Moto g7 play with ASOP

https://www.ui.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-2448/

https://www.ui.com/edgemax/edgerouter-x/

https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switching/products/usw-flex-mini

Checkout Lawrence Systems / PC Pickup

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkYOD-3fZbuGhwsADBd9ZQ

https://www.polygon.com/features/2020/9/29/21493772/elite-dangerous-odyssey-paid-dlc-preview-release-date-price

https://www.oculus.com/quest-2/

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2849273531812512/