Facebook Marketplace Is Being Ruined by Zelle Scammers
Credit to Author: Amanda Hoover| Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000
I tried to sell a futon on Facebook Marketplace and nearly all I got were scammers.
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Congress Sure Made a Lot of Noise About Kids’ Privacy in 2023—and Not Much Else
Credit to Author: Matt Laslo| Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000
Members of the US Congress touted improvements to children’s privacy protections as an urgent priority. So why didn’t they do anything about it?
Read MoreA Major Ransomware Takedown Suffers a Strange Setback
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 19:34:33 +0000
After an 18-month rampage, global law enforcement finally moved against the notorious Alphv/BlackCat ransomware group. Within hours, the operation faced obstacles.
Read MoreFor Patch Tuesday, 48 updates, no zero-day flaws
Microsoft has eased us into the new new year with just 48 updates for the Windows, Office and .NET platforms. There were no zero-days for January, and no reports of publicly exposed vulnerabilities or exploited security issues.
Developers of complex, line-of-business applications might need to pay particular attention to how Microsoft has updated the Message Queue system. Printing has been patched and minor updates to bluetooth and Windows shell sub-systems (shortcuts and wallpaper) require some testing before deployment.
The team at Readiness has crafted a useful infographic that outlines the risks associated with each of the updates for this January release.
Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000
On Telegram, scammers are impersonating doctors to sell fake Covid-19 vaccination certificates and other products, showing how criminals are taking advantage of conspiracy theories.
Read MoreSecurity tips for Apple-using workers in co-working spaces
For Apple-using workers on the go, especially if you frequent shared co-working spaces or public places, don’t assume you’re as secure as you think you are.
Co-working spaces are particularly under threat, in part because criminals have already figured out that the people using them are good targets for data theft, ransomware, and more.
They’ve also realized that at least some of those working from such spaces might well be part of, or connected with, larger corporate entities — meaning a successful data heist could unlock the gates to greater and more profitable kingdoms. There are useful resources from government and industry aimed at helping workers lock down their devices and data. In the US, for instance, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a useful guide to explain some of the risks, while the US Office of Personnel Management offered up even more useful advice.
Cybersecurity Industry Baffled by FBI’s Lack of Action on Ransomware Gang
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 01:02:52 +0000
Plus: Hackers reveal flaws in crypto wallets holding $1 billion, a massive breach of Danish electric utilities, and more.
Read MoreWill super chips disrupt the 'everything to the cloud' IT mentality?
Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:00:00 -0800
Enterprise IT for the last couple of years has grown disappointed in the economics — not to mention the cybersecurity and compliance impact — of corporate clouds. In general, with a few exceptions, enterprises have done little about it; most saw the scalability and efficiencies too seductive.
Might that change in 2024 and 2025?
Apple has begun talking about efforts to add higher-end compute capabilities to its chip, following similar efforts from Intel and NVIDIA. Although those new capabilities are aimed at enabling more large language model (LLM) capabilities on-device, anything that can deliver that level of data-crunching and analytics can also handle almost every other enterprise IT task.