Throw a spanner in the works, best get good at fixing things. Now, where did you put that spanner? Opinion  Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This works well in sane times, less so when “but it’s both” is the default. Apply it to Microsoft’s decision to make bug reports include not only a working example but a video of the same, and the meter oscillates wildly. What were they thinking? What did they expect?… READ MORE HERE…

PLUS: Zoho’s Ulaa anointed India’s most patriotic browser; Typhoon-like gang targets Taiwan; Japan debates offensive cyber-ops; and more Asia In Brief  China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Public Security have outlawed the use of facial recognition without consent.… READ MORE HERE…

Made up revenue and pretended to use non-existent data The former CEO of Kubient, an advertising tech company that developed a cloudy product capable of detecting fraudulent ads, has been jailed for fraud.… READ MORE HERE…

Plus: Customer info stolen from ‘parental control’ software slinger SpyX; F-35 kill switch denied Infosec newsbytes  Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions pitches its tools as helping governments and law enforcement agencies to catch criminals and terrorists, but a fresh Citizen Lab report claims its software has been used to target journalists, activists, and other civilians.… READ MORE HERE…

Feds want book thrown at Paige Thompson, who pinched 100M customer records Paige Thompson, the perpetrator of the Capital One data theft, may be sent back behind bars – after an appeals court ruled her sentence of time served plus five years of probation was too lenient.… READ MORE HERE…

So much for that vacation A US Department of Defense electrical engineer has turned his world upside down after printing 155 pages from 20 documents, all of which were marked top secret and classified, from his DoD workspace, brought them home with him – and was collared on his way to Mexico.… READ MORE HERE…