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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: The arrest of an alleged Lockbit ransomware hacker, the wild tale of a problematic FBI informant, and one of North Korea’s biggest crypto heists.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 21:25:48 +0000
The ransomware gang Clop exploited a vulnerability in a file transfer service. The flaw is now patched, but the damage is still coming into focus.
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Microsoft released 73 updates to its Windows, Office, and Visual Studio platforms on Patch Tuesday, with many of them dealing with core, but not urgent, security vulnerabilities. That’s a welcome respite from the previous six months of urgent zero-days and public disclosures. With that in mind, the Readiness testing team suggests a focus on printing and backup/recovery processes to make sure they’re not affected by this update cycle.
For the first time, we see a (non-Adobe) third-party vendor added to a Patch Tuesday release, with three minor plugin updates to Visual Studio for AutoDesk. Expect to see more such vendors added to Microsoft’s updates in the near future. The team at Readiness has created a useful infographic that outlines the risks associated with each of the updates.
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000
The US government warns encryption chipmaker Hualan has suspicious ties to China’s military. Yet US agencies still use one of its subsidiary’s chips, raising fears of a backdoor.
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In a world that needs Apple’s recently-improved Lockdown Mode to protect good people against bad ones, high-risk individuals should consider using physical security keys to protect their Apple ID.
Security keys are small devices that look a little like thumb drives. Apple at WWDC 2020 confirmed plans to support FIDO authentication beginning with iOS 14 and macOS 11; now, with the release of iOS 16.3, iPadOS 16.3, and macOS Ventura 13.2, Apple lets you use them to verify your Apple ID, replacing a passcode. They become one of the two forms of identification you require with two-factor authentication (2FA).
Credit to Author: Matt Laslo| Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Fresh claims from a former US intelligence officer about an “intact” alien craft may get traction on Capitol Hill, where some lawmakers want to believe.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:23:56 +0000
A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.
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Credit to Author: Varsha Bansal| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:05:05 +0000
Personal information, including ID documents and phone numbers, have been released on Telegram.
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