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Year: 2023

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  • May 19, 2023

Apple’s secret is out: 3 zero-days fixed, so be sure to patch now!

All Apple users have zero-days that need patching, though some have more zero-days than others.

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  • May 19, 2023

An error occurred (AuthFailure) when calling the ModifyImageAttribute operation: Not authorized for…

I got this error while running a script to deploy an EC2 instance using an AMI in another account. Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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  • May 19, 2023

WebKit Under Attack: Apple Issues Emergency Patches for 3 New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Apple on Thursday rolled out security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and the Safari web browser to address three new zero-day flaws that it said are being actively exploited in the wild. The three security shortcomings are listed below – CVE-2023-32409 – A WebKit flaw that could be exploited by a malicious actor to break out […]

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  • May 19, 2023

Posts on LinkedIn Rank Higher Than the Orginal on Medium

I’ve been noticing lately that some of my blog posts on Medium are showing up in Google search results due to the fact that I posted them… Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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Smashing Security podcast #322: When you buy a criminal’s phone, and paying for social media scams

Personal information is going for a song, and the banks want social media sites to pay when their users get scammed. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

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Surprise! Elon Musk’s encrypted Twitter DMs feature will cost you dear

Twitter’s new “encrypted DM” feature is a costly (and weaker) alternative to proper end-to-end encrypted messages.

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  • May 17, 2023

Remove AWS Control Tower

ACM.219 Steps to Decommission AWS Control Tower Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • May 17, 2023

Permission Sets Remain for Suspended Accounts in AWS Identity Center

I just suspended a bunch of AWS accounts because I’m moving to a new account structure in another AWS Organization. Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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Google combats AI misinformation with Search labels, adds dark web security upgrades

Artificial intelligence art service Midjourney and Shutterstock will identify their computer-generated images in Google Search. The post Google combats AI misinformation with Search labels, adds dark web security upgrades appeared first on TechRepublic.

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