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Employee guilty of joining ransomware attack on his own company

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: employee

Tags: insider threat

Tags: access control

Tags: policy

Tags: ransom

An employee that tried to take advantage of a ransomware attack on his own company has pleaded guilty after 5 years of denying he had anything to do with it.

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Google to pay $40m for “deceptive and unfair” location tracking practices

Categories: Personal

Tags: Google

Tags: tracking

Tags: location

Tags: data

Tags: court

Tags: lawsuit

Tags: settlement

Tags: advertising

We take a look at a case where Google is agreeing to pay $40m as a result of disclosure related to location tracking issues.

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Update now! Apple issues patches for three actively used zero-days

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Apple

Tags: RSR

Tags: CVE-2023-32409

Tags: CVE-2023-28204

Tags: CVE-2023-32373

Tags: out of bounds

Tags: use after free

Apple issued information about patches against three actively exploited zero-days in WebKit. One vulnerability is new, two were patched earlier this month.

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Identity crisis: How an anti-porn crusade could jam the Internet, featuring Alec Muffett: Lock and Code S04E11

Categories: Podcast

This week on Lock and Code, we speak with longtime security researcher about the eerily similar attempts across the globe to weaken the Internet to achieve one specific, social goal.

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