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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2023 Edition

Krebs on Security

CVSS score, and they all concern a widely-deployed component called the Windows Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM), which is used for delivering multicast data — such as video streaming or online gaming. .” There are at least three other vulnerabilities fixed this month that earned a collective 9.8

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Video as Grammar: The Supercut

John Battelle's Searchblog

As early as 2003, which was the first year I began writing this site, I wrote about the idea of “video as grammar.” ” By this I meant (and mean) that I foresaw a day when our culture communicated with itself using video much as we currently use text. Thank God for Andy Baio’s obsessions, is all I can say.

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News Alert: AVer joins forces with Nureva to deliver seamless, simplified meeting equipment

The Last Watchdog

USA , the award-winning provider of video collaboration and education solutions, announces a technology collaboration with Nureva to streamline hybrid meeting room connectivity. Fremont, Calif., 22, 2023 — AVer Information Inc. To learn more about AVer Information Inc. USA, please visit averusa.com.

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AI and the Indian Election

Schneier on Security

In January, Muthuvel Karunanidhi, former chief minister of the southern state of Tamil Nadu for two decades, appeared via video at his party’s youth wing conference. The video grafted Modi’s digital likeness onto the lead singer and cloned his voice with reworked lyrics critiquing his close ties to Indian business tycoons.

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FBI Arrests Alleged Owner of Deer.io, a Top Broker of Stolen Accounts

Krebs on Security

In addition to facilitating the sale of hacked accounts at video streaming services like Netflix and Hulu and social media platforms like Facebook , Twitter and Vkontakte (the Russian equivalent of Facebook), deer.io The user asks why Isis’s site — a video and music search site called vpleer[.]ru

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Cisco to pay $8.6 million fine for selling flawed surveillance technology to the US Gov

Security Affairs

Back in 2008, a whistle-blower identifies a vulnerability in Cisco video surveillance software, but the tech giant continued to sell the software to US agencies until July 2013. Cisco finally addressed the flaws in 2013 and stopped selling Cisco Video Surveillance Manager (VSM) in 2014. Cisco is going to pay $8.6

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Ross Anderson

Schneier on Security

Of course it was before 2008, when we created the Security and Human Behavior workshop. Also note his fifteen-lecture video series on that same page. Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge. I can’t remember when I first met Ross. Okay, he created both—I helped.)

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