https://apnews.com/article/nato-technology-iran-middle-east-6be153b291f42bd549d5ecce5941c32a

Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled the country’s embassy staff over a major cyberattack nearly two months ago that was allegedly carried out by Tehran on Albanian government websites, the prime minister said Wednesday.

The move by NATO member Albania was the first known case of a country cutting diplomatic relations over a cyberattack.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-23/heat-waves-drive-demand-for-air-conditioned-clothing

Jackets and vests with the cooling technology, used for years by Japanese construction workers, are being redesigned as casual wear and marketed to general consumers as heat waves grow more frequent and intense. Although often dubbed “air-conditioned clothing,” that’s something of a misnomer, because there’s usually only a fan and nothing to actually cool the air.

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Fans work by accelerating airflow to dry perspiration

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2020/09/a-simple-paint-job-can-save-birds-from-wind-turbines/

A small study in Norway showed that painting one blade of a wind turbine black reduced bird mortality by over 70%.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmvqm/an-ai-generated-artwork-won-first-place-at-a-state-fair-fine-arts-competition-and-artists-are-pissed

https://www.wired.com/story/john-deere-tractor-jailbreak-defcon-2022/

FARMERS AROUND THE world have turned to tractor hacking so they can bypass the digital locks that manufacturers impose on their vehicles. Like insulin pump “looping” and iPhone jailbreaking, this allows farmers to modify and repair the expensive equipment that’s vital to their work, the way they could with analog tractors. At the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas on Saturday, the hacker known as Sick Codes is presenting a new jailbreak for John Deere & Co. tractors that allows him to take control of multiple models through their touchscreens.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/anonymous-poop-gifting-site-hacked-customers-exposed/

ShitExpress, a web service that lets you send a box of feces along with a personalized message to friends and enemies, has been breached

https://www.cyberscoop.com/top-justice-official-paper-only/

Hickey said the takeaway for the court system is that sometimes the old-fashioned way of doing things is safer. He added that the paper-only system applies only to the most sensitive sealed documents as opposed to all of them.

“It’s a lesson, a fairly familiar adage, that going online is not always the best thing,” Hickey added. “Convenience is great, but security in any internet connected system is going to be different from what it would be on paper.”

https://therecord.media/microsoft-bug-in-janet-jacksons-rhythm-nation-could-crash-a-laptop/

the vulnerability comes from a phenomenon discovered by Microsoft where playing “Rhythm Nation” would cause any laptop with a certain hard drive to crash.

In its CVE page, the MITRE organization said the 5400 RPM OEM hard drives were shipped primarily with many laptop PCs around 2005. If played near these laptops, the song causes “a denial of service (device malfunction and system crash) via a resonant-frequency attack.”

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/north-korea-backed-hackers-have-a-clever-way-to-read-your-gmail/

The malware, dubbed SHARPEXT by researchers from security firm Volexity, uses clever means to install a browser extension for the Chrome and Edge browsers, Volexity reported in a blog post. The extension can’t be detected by the email services, and since the browser has already been authenticated using any multifactor authentication protections in place, this increasingly popular security measure plays no role in reining in the account compromise. The extension isn’t available in Google’s Chrome Web Store, Microsoft’s add-ons page, or any other known third-party source and doesn’t rely on flaws in Gmail or AOL Mail to get installed.

Volexity President Steven Adair said in an email that the extension gets installed “by way of spear phishing and social engineering where the victim is fooled into opening a malicious document.

https://www.binance.com/en/blog/community/scammers-created-an-ai-hologram-of-me-to-scam-unsuspecting-projects-6406050849026267209

Over the past month, I’ve received several online messages thanking me for taking the time to meet with project teams regarding potential opportunities to list their assets on Binance.com. This was odd because I don’t have any oversight of or insight into Binance listings, nor had I met with any of these people before.

It turns out that a sophisticated hacking team used previous news interviews and TV appearances over the years to create a “deep fake” of me. Other than the 15 pounds that I gained during COVID being noticeably absent, this deep fake was refined enough to fool several highly intelligent crypto community members.