Why deleting your Twitter account may be a very bad idea, how the police unravelled the iSpoof fraud gang, and a trip into outer space (or at least interplanetary file systems). All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsAs of September 2022, Twitter had challenged 11.72 million accounts, suspended 11,230 accounts, and removed over 97,674 pieces of misleading content related to COVID-19 worldwide. Today? It’s not doing anything. As an update on the company’s COVID-19 misinformation report webpage notes: Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy. […]
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Cloud security vendor Fortanix has updated its Data Security Manager to incorporate support for AWS’ external encryption key store system, adding another major public cloud vendor to the list of those supported for the company’s key management system. With this week’s update, Fortanix, which already supports this type of cloud key management system in Azure […]
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Amazon Web Services has announced AWS Lambda serverless function support for its automated vulnerability management service, Amazon Inspector, and a new automated sensitive data discovery capability in its machine learning security and privacy service, Amazon Macie. Both announcements were made during the AWS Re:Invent 2022 conference in Las Vegas this week. They follow other security-focused […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends87% of DoD contractors are failing to meet the basic level of compliance ahead of CMMC coming into force next year
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The North Korea-linked ScarCruft group has been attributed to a previously undocumented backdoor called Dolphin that the threat actor has used against targets located in its southern counterpart. “The backdoor […] has a wide range of spying capabilities, including monitoring drives and portable devices and exfiltrating files of interest, keylogging and taking screenshots, and stealing
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe higher penalties and extended powers will become effective after the bill receives royal assent
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It’s not just the hashing, by the way. It’s the salting and the stretching, too!
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe flaw has a CVSS v3 base score rating of 9.8 and can be found in the Dev UI Config Editor
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