Beware the Never-Ending Disinformation Emergency
Credit to Author: Gilad Edelman| Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 13:00:00 +0000
YouTube still draws a hard line on Trump’s rigged election claims. Two years later, it doesn’t hold up.
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Chinese Spies Hacked a Livestock App to Breach US State Networks
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 15:00:00 +0000
Vulnerabilities in animal tracking software USAHERDS and Log4j gave the notorious APT41 group a foothold in multiple government systems.
Read MoreWar Is Calling Crypto’s ‘Neutrality’ Into Question
Credit to Author: Gian M. Volpicelli| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000
War in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia have made cryptocurrency a hot potato for international politics.
Read MoreCritical Bugs Expose Hundreds of Thousands of Medical Devices
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 05:01:00 +0000
The so-called Access:7 vulnerabilities are the latest high-profile IoT security fumble.
Read MorePhishing e-mails are more prevalent (and dangerous) than ever
Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 08:56:00 -0800
Phishing, those malicious e-mails that pretend to be legitimate messages, has been a problem since Canter and Siegel launched the first spam campaign in 1994. (Mea culpa — it seems they learned about this thing called the Internet from some of my articles.) Today, spam, while still annoying, is the least of our e-mail troubles. In addition to invading Ukraine, Russian agents are now doing their best to invade our IT systems via phishing e-mails.
Google buys cybersecurity company Mandiant for $5.4B
Credit to Author: Charlotte Trueman| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 04:58:00 -0800
In a move to offer an end-to-end security operations suite from its cloud platform, Google has announced it will acquire cyberdefense and response company Mandiant for $5.4 billion, in a deal expected to close later this year.
The acquisition will complement Google Cloud’s existing security services and together, the companies will deliver a security operations suite as well as advisory services that help customers address critical security challenges and stay protected at every stage of the security lifecycle, Mandiant said in a press release.
The company recently announced a new Ransomware Defense Validation service for its SaaS-based XDR (extended detection and response) platform, Mandiant Advantage, to help enterprises gauge the ability of their security systems to guard against ransomware attacks.
How Police Abuse Phone Data to Persecute LGBTQ People
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:36:01 +0000
In many parts of the world, law enforcement uses WhatsApp chats, text messages, and photos from confiscated phones as “evidence” against persecuted groups.
Read MoreChange my password? AGAIN?
Credit to Author: Susan Bradley| Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:02:00 -0800
Every year at this time, I have to fill out my firm’s cyber insurance application — and every year they ask whether we encourage strong passwords and change them often. This question annoys me tremendously, because we really shouldn’t be changing passwords often. We should instead be choosing authentication processes that appropriately match site risks; using a password should be the last thing you want to rely on.
First, think about the information and data a website is keeping on you. The sites we want to offer the most protections often have the weakest. Where you can, always add two-factor authentication to a site’s access. (Not all multi-factor authentication is created equally, but some sort of multi-factor is better than none. If it encourages attackers to go elsewhere, it’s done its job.