How Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Account Was Hacked
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:56:41 +0000
Like so many Twitter attacks lately, it was a SIM swap.
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An Unprecedented iPhone Hack, a Wi-Fi Leg Implant, and More News
Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:03:34 +0000
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
Read MoreWhy it is Important to have an RCCB in a Distribution Board
Credit to Author: Mahika Khanna| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 05:03:14 +0000
While electricity has become a critical component of everyone’s lives, the fact of the matter is, it comes with its own dangers to human life and equipment. Electrocution and fire… Read more »
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Read MoreMysterious iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:01:56 +0000
For two years, a handful of websites have indiscriminately hacked thousands of iPhones.
Read MoreMicrosoft Patch Alert: Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:27:00 -0700
What happens when Microsoft releases eight – count ‘em, eight – concurrent beta test versions of Win10 version 1909 without fixing bugs introduced into 1903 on Patch Tuesday?
Pan. De. Moaaan. Ium.
The VB/VBA/VBScript debacle
No doubt, you recall the first wave of pain inflicted by the August 2019 patching regimen. Microsoft somehow managed to mess up Visual Basic (an old custom programming language), Visual Basic for Applications (for Office macros) and VBScript (a largely forgotten language primarily used inside Internet Explorer). Folks running applications in any of those languages would, on occasion, receive “invalid procedure call error” messages when using apps that had been working for decades.
Phishers are Angling for Your Cloud Providers
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:21:59 +0000
Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Here’s a look at a recent CRM-based phishing campaign that targeted customers of Fortune 500 construction equipment vendor United Rentals.
Read MoreUnprecedented new iPhone malware discovered
Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:40:24 +0000
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| Google announced late last night that hacked websites have been used to drop iPhone malware on unsuspecting users over a two-year period. Thomas Reed investigates. Categories: Tags: AppleiOSios infectionios malwareiPhoneiphone malwaremacmalware infectiontridentzero dayzero-day vulnerability |
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Read MoreAugust, 2019 Patch Tuesday Targets Remote Desktop and Active Directory
Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:28:14 +0000
Among the 94 vulnerabilities fixed this month by Microsoft, 29 are rated as Critical. Most importantly, the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and its associated service (RDS) collect a total of 6 CVEs, which seems to show a renewed interest in the RDP protocol by vulnerability researchers; two of those classified as wormable (CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182) […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/1hDq4cmGQ80″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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