John Z Black
Brunswick, ME • (207) 245-1010 • contact@johnzblack.com
Mostly security stuff...
Make sure you check out my main blog at https://gnerdsec.com/blog
Privacy Is Now a $475 Million Business, and That's Kind of a Scandal
Cape raised $100M to protect phones from Stingrays and SS7 attacks; Cloaked raised $375M to hide your identity from data brokers -- together they're a $475 million indictment of the infrastructure that was supposed to protect you.
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Inside the North Korean IT Worker Playbook: IBM and Flare's New Research Shows Exactly How They Get In
IBM and Flare published the most detailed technical breakdown yet of how North Korean IT workers infiltrate US companies, including specific detection controls security and HR teams can actually use.
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Meta Killed Instagram's Encryption and Hired Signal's Founder to Encrypt Its AI in the Same Week
Meta un-defaulted end-to-end encryption on Instagram DMs while partnering with Moxie Marlinspike to encrypt its AI chatbot, revealing exactly where Big Tech's privacy priorities actually land.
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Interlock Ransomware Had a Cisco Firewall Zero-Day Before Anyone Knew It Existed
The Interlock ransomware group exploited a critical Cisco ASA/FTD zero-day for weeks before disclosure, marking a real shift as criminal groups gain access to capabilities once reserved for nation-states.
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DOGE Sent a Lawyer With No Nuclear Experience to Run NRC Meetings. He Dismissed Safety Concerns.
A 31-year-old DOGE-placed lawyer with zero nuclear background was chairing technical meetings at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and reportedly dismissing staff safety concerns -- at exactly the wrong moment.
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A Hack You Never Heard Of Just Stranded Thousands of People Who Had No Say in Any of It
A cyberattack on a court-ordered breathalyzer company left thousands of DUI-monitored drivers stranded and potentially facing legal consequences through no fault of their own.
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