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Nathaniel Mott

U.S. cyber board’s Lapsus$ postmortem, CPU vulns and remembering Vim’s creator

Welcome to Changelog for 8/13/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here with a special announcement: README and Changelog will be…

7 min readAug 13, 2023

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U.S. cyber board’s Lapsus$ postmortem, CPU vulns and remembering Vim’s creator

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Nathaniel Mott

Back-to-back Ivanti vulns, Microsoft woes and robocaller schadenfreude

Welcome to Changelog for 8/6/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here with the week’s security news. Yes, README will be covering Black…

7 min readAug 6, 2023

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Back-to-back Ivanti vulns, Microsoft woes and robocaller schadenfreude

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Nathaniel Mott

Disruptive Chinese malware, Storm-0558 fallout and SEC cyber rules

Welcome to Changelog for 7/30/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here, still parsing the New York Times’ blockbuster report Saturday…

8 min readJul 30, 2023

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Disruptive Chinese malware, Storm-0558 fallout and SEC cyber rules

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Nathaniel Mott

Google cuts the cord, Microsoft takes a security pay cut and the U.S. slaps spyware firms

Welcome to Changelog for 7/23/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here, braving ongoing thunderstorms throughout upstate New York to…

6 min readJul 23, 2023

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Google cuts the cord, Microsoft takes a security pay cut and the U.S. slaps spyware firms

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Robert Lemos

Attackers are on the edge. Where are defenders?

Network “edge” devices have become a common entry point for attackers in significant enterprise breaches. How can defenders respond?

7 min readJul 18, 2023

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Attackers are on the edge. Where are defenders?

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Nathaniel Mott

China’s U.S. agency hacking spree, zero-days galore and USB malware

Welcome to Changelog for 7/16/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here, signing in from upstate New York. README was onsite at the…

6 min readJul 16, 2023

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China’s U.S. agency hacking spree, zero-days galore and USB malware

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Blake Sobczak

Top cyber takeaways from the Intelligence and National Security Summit

Concerns about China and generative AI dominated the cybersecurity discussions at the tenth annual gathering of security pros and spies.

5 min readJul 14, 2023

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Top cyber takeaways from the Intelligence and National Security Summit

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Nathaniel Mott

TrueBot rises, a major port gets ransomwared and EVs’ cyber problem

Welcome to Changelog for 7/9/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here, hoping we can all finally catch a break from the big East Coast…

6 min readJul 9, 2023

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TrueBot rises, a major port gets ransomwared and EVs’ cyber problem

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Nathaniel Mott

The SEC goes after SolarWinds, LockBit extorts TSMC and a high school password fail

Welcome to Changelog for 7/2/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here, ready to jinx everyone’s Fourth of July by bringing up the “K”…

8 min readJul 2, 2023

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The SEC goes after SolarWinds, LockBit extorts TSMC and a high school password fail

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Nathaniel Mott

Apple patches zero-days, MOVEit Transfer vuln leaks and the FBI gets cute

Welcome to Changelog for 6/25/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here after our Juneteenth break with the latest security news.

7 min readJun 25, 2023

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Apple patches zero-days, MOVEit Transfer vuln leaks and the FBI gets cute

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Blake Sobczak
Blake Sobczak is editor-in-chief of README, published by Synack. He is based in Washington, D.C., where he previously worked as a deputy editor at E&E News.
Nathaniel Mott
Senior Editor at README
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