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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 21:50:41 +0000
Guns. Luxury apartments. Duped Secret Service personnel. Did the FBI uncover a foreign plot, or something more ridiculous?
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Credit to Author: Susan Bradley| Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 08:54:00 -0700
We often think vendors are perfect. They have backups. They have redundancy. They have experts that know exactly how to deploy solutions without fail. And then we see they aren’t any better than we are.
Let’s look at a few recent examples.
In the small to mid-sized business (SMB) space, StorageCraft has long been a trusted backup software vendor. One of the first to make image backups easy to do, it was used and recommended by many managed service providers. After StorageCraft was acquired by Arcserve in March 2021, there were no immediate major changes in how the company ran.
Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000
It’s your account—you decide who’s allowed to see your vacation photos or slide into your DMs.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: Spyware maker NSO Group deemed “valueless,” T-Mobile fails to buy its stolen data, and malware spreads on Telegram.
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Credit to Author: Gilad Edelman| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:17:51 +0000
It really is the closest thing we have to an online public square—and that’s terrible for democracy. Let his takeover bid be a wakeup call.
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Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:40:00 -0700
This week’s Patch Tuesday release was huge, diverse, risky, and urgent, with late update arrivals for Microsoft browsers (CVE-2022-1364) and two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Windows (CVE-2022-26809 and CVE-2022-24500). Fortunately, Microsoft has not released any patches for Microsoft Exchange, but this month we do have to deal with more Adobe (PDF) printing related vulnerabilities and associated testing efforts. We have added the Windows and Adobe updates to our “Patch Now” schedule, and will be watching closely to see what happens with any further Microsoft Office updates.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:05:22 +0000
More than just group DMs, WhatsApp’s new feature is a major expansion of its comprehensive encrypted messaging.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000
Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.
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