No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury …
— Amendment V, United States Constitution
Two hundred and fifty years since the nation’s founding, and almost as many since the adoption of the Bill of Rights,
the role of the grand jury in the American criminal justice system continues to spark debate.
Recently, scrutiny of the grand jury and renewed calls to strengthen it as a bulwark…
„I think normal people will continue to react negatively when you tell them you have been passively recording them because, outside Silicon Valley, that is considered gross and invasive.“
Live Rewind Is a Creepy Part of #Apple’s Audio Intelligence Suite – Pixel Envy
Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome that could potentially allow remote code execution within Chrome's sandboxed renderer process (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
Offroad Touring Life Podcast
Join me as I dive into the real world of 4WD touring, remote adventures and camping. From the vehicles we use, the camping and touring set ups and more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/offroad-to…
Simple but effective control to help prevent abuse of your business network: disable the remote debugging feature of Chrome and Edge. It disrupts the C2 capabilities described here (but used in other attacks as well)
Look for these settings:
RemoteDebuggingAllowed > Disabled
(Intune: Microsoft Edge > Allow remote debugging)
#cybersecurity
Every week, Metacurity delivers to our subscribers a round-up of the best infosec long-reads we couldn't properly get to amid the crush of news.
This week's selection covers
--The UK's untrustworthy crime prediction machine,
--Scattered Spider didn't attack Jaguar Land Rover,
--A powerful new side channel attack,
--Trump's AI order may not be so voluntary,
-AI-generated malware can dodge signature-based detection
ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/security/2026/threatlocker-lands-190m-in-n…
Arts House Listening Program
With a year-round program of dance, theatre, music, sound, new technologies and community projects, Arts House is one of the major forces shaping Melbourne's cultural and social landscape...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpo…
ChipAgents, which uses AI agents to help speed up the process of chip design, raised a $60M Series A2 led by B Capital, bringing the expanded round to $134M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-pa