flyingpenguin.com reaches 7,000 posts

We have reached 7,000 posts since 1995, which got me thinking… I may forever remain unpopular, unwelcome to EFF slush parties in their mansion, or unable to win a coveted Forbes 100 under 100, but I hope my history professors will be proud and my…

June 16, 2026
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China-linked actor spent two years inside medical research networks

China’s UNC6508 hid in North American medical research networks for 2 years, stealing credentials and forwarding emails to Gmail Google’s Threat Intelligence Group published a report this week on UNC6508, a China-linked cyberespionage group that breached North American medical and military research organizations and stayed hidden for more than two years. The earliest confirmed intrusion […]

June 16, 2026
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Dutch RDW Caught in Tesla FSD Fraud

The Dutch certified Tesla’s FSD in April while Tesla was handing regulators in the Netherlands and Sweden self-published statistics that ten of eleven independent researchers call misleading marketing, and while U.S. federal investigations into t…

June 16, 2026
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Fable Export Control Is Bully Economics

Katie Moussouris is apparently the only person outside the agencies who has read the paper that took down Fable 5. She wrote up what is in it. Start with the secrecy, because it is such a red flag. The officials who pulled the trigger had not read the …

June 16, 2026
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Australian Sugar Producer Mackay Sugar Reports Cyber Incident

Mackay Sugar, Australia’s second-largest sugar producer, disclosed a cyberattack on June 10, potentially affecting key processing operations. Mackay Sugar is one of Australia’s largest sugar producers and the country’s second-largest sugar manufacturer. The company is based in the Mackay region of tropical North Queensland and has more than 140 years of history in sugar cane […]

June 15, 2026
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Palo Alto Warns of Exploitation of VPN Bypass Exploits (CVE-2026-0257) in PAN-OS Flaw

Palo Alto Networks warns that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257, a PAN-OS flaw that lets unauthorized users bypass authentication and establish VPN connections. Palo Alto Networks has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-0257, a PAN-OS authentication bypass vulnerability affecting GlobalProtect portals and gateways. Palo Alto Networks addressed the vulnerability on May 13. Two weeks later, cybersecurity firm Rapid7 […]

June 15, 2026
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