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· Cyber News

‘Tis the Season for Holiday Scams

This time of year, the air not only gets chillier but a bit cheerier for everyone … including online scammers.

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· Cyber News

Google Rolls Out New Chrome Browser Update to Patch Yet Another Zero-Day Vulnerability

Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to fix a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web…

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Apple pushes out iOS security update that’s more tight-lipped than ever

We grabbed the update, based on no information at all, just in case we came across a reason to advise you not to. So far, so good…

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· Cyber News

Friday Squid Blogging: Legend of the Indiana Oil-Pit Squid

At a GMC plant. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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· Cyber News

Existential Risk and the Fermi Paradox

We know that complexity is the worst enemy of security, because it makes attack easier and defense harder.

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· Cyber News

Researchers Disclose Supply-Chain Flaw Affecting IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL

IBM has fixed a high-severity security vulnerability affecting its Cloud Databases (ICD) for PostgreSQL product that could be potentially…

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· Cyber News

The Value of Old Systems

Old technology solutions – every organization has a few of them tucked away somewhere.

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· Cyber News

CISA Warns of Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities Affecting Mitsubishi Electric PLCs

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory warning of…

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· Cyber News

Hackers Sign Android Malware Apps with Compromised Platform Certificates

Platform certificates used by Android smartphone vendors like Samsung, LG, and MediaTek have been found to be abused to sign malicious…

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· Cyber News

‘Black Proxies’ Enable Threat Actors to Conduct Malicious Activity

First used as botnets, their lucrative nature turned them into independent criminal enterprises

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· Cyber News

Google Increases Android Security With Memory-Safe Programming Languages

The number of memory safety vulnerabilities in Android dropped from 223 in 2019 to 85 in 2022

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· Cyber News

Let’s Make Security Easy

You flick through some reels and an ad for “a more private phone” crops up.

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· Cyber News

Hackers Use Archive Files and HTML Smuggling to Bypass Detection Tools

HP’s latest report suggests 44% of malware was delivered via archive files in Q3 2022

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· Cyber News

How To Help Your Family Protect Their Online Data

Whether you’re standing around the water cooler at work, waiting for your kids at the school gate or sitting around the dinner table, data…

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Security Announcements at AWS re:Invent 2022

Some thoughts on security announcements to date at AWS re:Invent More posts on AWS Security Watching Werner Vogel’s Keynote In this post…

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· Cyber News

Industry Coalition Urges Congress to Hold off on SBOMs Requirements for Defense Contractors

The coalition outlined the need to refine SBOM requirements before making it an obligation for defense contractors

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· Cyber News

LastPass Security Breach

The company was hacked, and customer information accessed. No passwords were compromised.

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· Cyber News

NATO Launches Massive Cyber-Defense Exercise

Annual Cyber Coalition effort helps nations develop and share best practice

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· Cyber News

Cuba Ransomware Actors Pocket $60m

Number of US victims has doubled over the past year

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· Cyber News

Trojan Steals Facebook Details from Over 300K Victims

“Schoolyard Bully” has been active since 2018

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· Cyber News

Cuba Ransomware Extorted Over $60 Million in Ransom Fees from More than 100 Entities

The threat actors behind Cuba (aka COLDDRAW) ransomware have received more than $60 million in ransom payments and compromised over 100…

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· Cyber News

LastPass admits to customer data breach caused by previous breach

Seems that the developer account that the crooks breached last time gave indirect access to customer data this time round.

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· Cyber News

How to run better meetings with new Microsoft Teams tools

Microsoft thinks new digital meeting tools — which include Mesh avatars that reduce the pressure of being on camera for video calls and AI…

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· Cyber News

ConnectWise Quietly Patches Flaw That Helps Phishers

ConnectWise, a self-hosted, remote desktop software application that is widely used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), is warning about…

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