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Month: November 2022

Microsoft’s Edge over Popups (and Google Chrome)

Following up on our previous blog, How to Stop the Popups, McAfee Labs saw a sharp decrease in the number of deceptive push notifications reported by McAfee consumers running Microsoft’s Edge browser on Windows. Such browser-delivered push messages appear as toaster pop-ups in the tray above the system clock and are meant to trick users […]

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Threat Actors Taking Advantage of FTX Bankruptcy 

Authored by Oliver Devane  It hasn’t taken malicious actors long to take advantage of the recent bankruptcy filing of FTX,  McAfee has discovered several phishing sites targeting FTX users.   One of the sites discovered was registered on the 15th of November and asks users to submit their crypto wallet phrase to receive a refund. After […]

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  • November 16, 2022

Google to Roll Out Privacy Sandbox Beta on Android 13 by Early 2023

Internet behemoth Google on Tuesday said it plans to roll out Privacy Sandbox for Android in beta to mobile devices running Android 13 starting early next year. “The Privacy Sandbox Beta will be available for ad tech and app developers who wish to test the ads-related APIs as part of their solutions,” the company said. To […]

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It’s time. Delete your Twitter DMs

Twitter is in chaos. I’d rather delete my Direct Messages one-by-one than one day find that they are in the hands of a hacker or a disgruntled Twitter employee who goes rogue.

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  • November 15, 2022

Cohesity previews AI-powered ransomware protection suite, Datahawk

Backup and data management vendor Cohesity has started to preview a new ransomware protection SaaS product called Datahawk, which leverages AI and a host of other capabilities to help companies defend their data against bad actors. There are three core components to Datahawk, according to Cohesity. The first is a ransomware detection engine that uses […]

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  • November 15, 2022

ForgeRock set to roll out new IAM capabilities designed for the cloud

Identity and access management (IAM) vendor ForgeRock said Tuesday that it’s set to start rolling out its new Identity Governance offering—a cloud-based security and governance product designed to provide one-stop shopping for organizations looking to solve access management issues. There are three main components to ForgeRock’s newest IAM product, according to the company. The first, […]

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  • November 15, 2022

Researchers Reported Critical SQLi and Access Flaws in Zendesk Analytics Service

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of now-patched flaws in Zendesk Explore that could have been exploited by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to information from customer accounts that have the feature turned on. “Before it was patched, the flaw would have allowed threat actors to access conversations, email addresses, tickets, comments, and other information […]

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  • November 15, 2022

PCSpoof: New Vulnerability Affects Networking Tech Used by Spacecraft and Aircraft

Credit: Marina Minkin A novel attack method has been disclosed against a crucial piece of technology called time-triggered ethernet (TTE) that’s used in safety-critical infrastructure, potentially causing the failure of systems powering spacecraft and aircraft. Dubbed PCspooF by a group of academics and researchers from the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, and the NASA

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