Beyond the kill chain: What cybercriminals do with their money (Part 2)
In the second of our five-part series, Sophos X-Ops investigates the so-called ‘white’ (legitimate) business interests of threat actors
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Beyond the kill chain: What cybercriminals do with their money (Part 3)
In the third of our five-part series, Sophos X-Ops explores the more legally and ethically dubious business interests of financially motivated threat actors
Sophos Firewall v21.5: DNS protection
How to make the most of the new features in Sophos Firewall v21.5.
Microsoft primes 71 fixes for May Patch Tuesday
Five issues actively exploited in the wild, but the real excitement may have been handled in advance
License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows
Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company whose cameras are installed in more than 5,000 communities in the U.S., is building a product that will use people lookup tools, data brokers, and data breaches to “jump from LPR [license plate reader] to person,” allowing police to much more easily identify and track the movements…
Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the visual effects studio that practically invented the field as we know it today, revealed how it thinks it will use generative AI in the future, and that future looks really bad. Much of what we understand today as special effects in movies was born at Industrial ILM, which was…
Podcast: AI Avatar of Killed Man Testifies in Court
We start this week with Jason and Matthew’s story about an AI avatar that testified in court. It might be a sign of things to come. After the break, well, well, well, Meta is developing facial recognition for its smart glasses. In the subscribers-only section, Jason tells us all about AI in baseball. Listen to…
Nineteen Sophos Women Recognized by CRN’s Women of the Channel
CRN honors Sophos women whose channel expertise and vision are deserving of recognition.
Kanye’s Nazi Song Is All Over Instagram
While other social media sites and streaming services rush to scrub Kanye West’s pro-Nazi song from their platforms , the curious or the enthused can find memes, remixes, and unedited audio of West’s new song, “Heil Hitler,” all over Instagram. Nazism is one of the only groups that Meta calls out by name in its…
The Simulation Says the Orioles Should Be Good
The Baltimore Orioles should be good, but they are not good. At 15-24, they are one of the worst teams in all of Major League Baseball this season, an outcome thus far that fans, experts, and the team itself will tell you are either statistically improbable or nearing statistically impossible based on thousands upon thousands…