Unsupervised Learning: No. 194

Not sure how this isn't bigger news, but Saudi Arabia shut down half its oil production after a number of drones attacked the largest oil processing plant in the world. Yemeni rebels claimed credit, but the US blames Iran. More DNS over HTTPS is coming to Chrome as well, so it's not just Firefox. So this is basically where browsers have a preferred DNS server, which works over HTTPS, and ISPs therefore won't be able to see every DNS request that users make. This will be a good thing for reducing the risk of ISPs (and actors with access to their logs) seeing what people are requesting, but it raises questions around filtering, caching networks, and other major components of the status quo. More A couple of Coalfire Pentester's got arrested and are still in custody for trying to break into a courthouse that they were actually paid to break into. Evidently, it's not clear whether the physical part was in scope or not. So, no, the get out of jail free card wouldn't have helped. Everyone already knows they were doing it thinking it was ok; the question is next steps. And meanwhile they sit in jail, probably spending all their time mentally working on DEFCON slides. More