Wired reporting on the Windows ransomware that’s wreaking havoc at the moment:

One reason WannaCry has proven so vicious? It seems to leverage a Windows vulnerability known as EternalBlue that allegedly originated with the NSA. The exploit was dumped into the wild last month in a trove of alleged NSA tools by the Shadow Brokers hacking group. Microsoft released a patch for the exploit, known as MS17-010, in March, but clearly many organizations haven’t caught up.

Even if this doesn’t originate from the NSA, it’s ample proof that no one should have backdoors.

Fascinating piece on how the FBI found the Silk Road server and thus its owner, or rather, if there was foul play involved in the discovery.

The FBI also provided the defense with the traffic logs from the Silk Road server, but Weaver didn’t like the look of those either. He suggested that the logs didn’t show the FBI getting an IP address from a leaky CAPTCHA, but a PHPMyAdmin configuration page.

So now another question arises. If the FBI didn’t find the server because of a leaky CAPTCHA, how did it find a PHPMyAdmin page instead?

Lots of unanswered things according to this report, that’s for sure.