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  • September 10, 2023

Different Types of Man-In-The-Middle Attacks

ACM.297 Different points of MITM attack and how they can affect victims and websites Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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Microsoft, Apple versus China, spyware actors

It’s a cat-and-mouse struggle as tech giants Microsoft and Apple deal with persistent threats from China state actors and Pegasus spyware.

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Regulator to Investigate Fertility App Security Concerns

ICO reveals over half of women are worried about their data

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  • September 7, 2023

Emerging cyber threats in 2023 from AI to quantum to data poisoning

Companies using Microsoft Teams got news earlier in the summer of 2023 that a Russian hacker group was using the platform to launch phishing attacks, putting a new spin on a long-known attack strategy. According to Microsoft Threat Intelligence, the hackers, identified as Midnight Blizzard, used Microsoft 365 tenants owned by small businesses compromised in […]

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Experts Uncover Underground Phishing “Empire” W3LL

Secretive group targets specifically Microsoft 365 accounts

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UK National Cyber Security Centre Gets a New CTO

Industry veteran Ollie Whitehouse is confirmed

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Four Convicted in $18m Investment Fraud Scheme

The Brittingham Group promised outsized returns to victims

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  • September 4, 2023

Why Instagram Threads is a hotbed of risks for businesses

Instagram’s Threads platform launched to great fanfare in July with a massive surge of users signing up for the new text-sharing and public conversation service, including businesses using the service as an extension of existing social media and communications programs. Many have seen it as an alternative to Elon Musk’s X — formerly Twitter — […]

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