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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 21:34:34 +0000
The issue was reportedly caused by a maintenance update made to “messaging platforms of multiple carriers in the US.”
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:05:54 +0000
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a ransomware that is attacking Spanish companies and how nearly 50 adware apps were found on Google Play. Also, read about how an Amazon Echo…
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 06:17:00 -0800
Apple has published lots of information explaining how its newly introduced Sign in With Apple service solves a problem most of us didn’t know existed and which many of us would very much like to solve.
The issue:
Most social sign-in services act a little like people-tracking honey pots: You come to use a website or service and stay because the people providing the authorization use that moment to gather even more information about what you do.
What happens is that the persistent identity used by those services can be combined with other data to identify where you go, what you look for and more.
Credit to Author: Sameer Patil| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 09:54:04 +0000
CVE-2019-0708, popularly known as BlueKeep, is a RDP pre-authentication vulnerability which allows attacker to compromise a vulnerable system without user’s interaction. This exploit is also wormable, meaning that it can spread to other vulnerable systems in a similar way as the WannaCry malware spread across the globe in 2017. Interestingly,…
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Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000
It’s much harder than it should be to get your name off of data broker and people-search sites, but it’s possible.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 03:31:14 +0000
Hackers are one thing. But too few companies take the threat of an inside job seriously enough.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 06:20:00 -0800
People are finally waking up to the importance of privacy and the risk of entities over whom we have no control hoovering up the details of our digital lives, and that’s why the latest news from Duck Duck Go is so worthwhile.
We know Apple is working to protect privacy – its newly updated privacy website shares a huge amount of information on its efforts, while the newly-published Safari white paper confirms the browser’s privacy protections include (among other things):
Printers, often a forgotten target in the enterprise, are vulnerable to all the usual cyberattacks. Watch as IDG TECH(talk) hosts Ken Mingis and Juliet Beauchamp and CSO Online’s J.M. Porup discuss the threats to these devices, plus how to secure them and protect your network.