Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, May 28th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

The Solar Winds hackers are back and I'm starting to fear the escalation of a cyber cold war here.

Mark Garman thinks we'll see redesigned air pods this year. Have I been poned?

Goes open source and come for the long Reed suggestions as always but stay for my

rant about that insane citizen app story.

Microsoft is reporting that the Solar Winds hackers are back and that they've hacked

email systems used by the State Department's International Aid Agency in order to attack

human rights groups and other organizations critical of Russia's

President Vladimir Putin. Remember we don't know how long the solar winds hackers

were in the various systems they penetrated last year and we don't know what sort of booby traps

and hidyholes they installed for themselves for later use.

Perhaps this is that coming home to Roost, quoting the New York Times.

Hackers linked to Russia's main intelligence agency

surreptitiously seized an email system

used by the State Department's International Aid

Agency to borrow into the computer networks

of human rights groups and other organizations of the

sort that have been critical of President Vladimir Putin, Microsoft

Corporation disclosed on Thursday. The newly disclosed attack was also

particularly bold by breaching the systems of a supplier used by the federal government,

the hackers sent out genuine looking emails to more than 3,000 accounts across more than 150

organizations that regularly receive communications from the United States

...