Microsoft has acknowledged another known issue affecting Windows 10 devices with WWAN LTE cellular modems and is now blocking Windows 10, version 2004 from being installed on them until a solution will be available. […]
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The American Payroll Association (APA) disclosed a data breach affecting members and customers after attackers successfully planted a web skimmer on the organization’s website login and online store checkout pages. […]
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Lenovo has issued an advisory warning that Windows 10 2004, the May 2020 Update, can cause BSODs in various ThinkPad laptop models. […]
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The authors of the Mac malware known as Shlayer have successfully managed to get their malicious payloads through Apple’s automated notarizing process. […]
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Hackers are scanning for vulnerable network-attached storage (NAS) devices running multiple QNAP firmware versions, trying to exploit a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability addressed by QNAP in a previous release. […]
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Customers are reporting performance issues trying to trade on Vanguard, Schwab, TD Ameritrade, Robinhood, and Merril Lynch this morning. […]
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Cisco warned over the weekend that threat actors are trying to exploit a high severity memory exhaustion denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the company’s Cisco IOS XR software that runs on carrier-grade routers. […]
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If you are looking to purchase a 2-year TLS or SSL certificate, you have only two days left before all new certificates will have a maximum 397 day validity period. […]
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A CenturyLink BGP routing mistake has led to a ripple effect across the Internet that led to outages for numerous Internet-connected services such as Cloudflare, Amazon, Garmin, Steam, Discord, Blizzard, and many more. […]
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A researcher responsibly disclosed multiple vulnerabilities to Slack that allowed an attacker to hijack a user’s computer, and they were only rewarded a measly $1,750. […]
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One of the world’s largest domain registrars, Namecheap has been hit with a series of mysterious outages today and it is not clear why.. […]
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In this article, we’ve highlighted the new features that Microsoft is currently testing for Windows 10 21H1 and greater. […]
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Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you can launch Linux applications directly in a Windows 10 command prompt or PowerShell prompt. […]
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Microsoft August 2020 security patch fixed over 120 flaws. One of these flaws lets anyone freeze IIS servers by streaming videos, and seeking through them fast. […]
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The Emotet botnet has begun to use a new template for their malicious attachments, and it is just as dangerous as ever. […]
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning of online romance scams, an ongoing online fraud trend that can lead to large financial losses, as well as devastating emotional scars. […]
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A former Cisco employee pleaded guilty to accessing the company’s cloud infrastructure in 2018, five months after resigning, to deploy code that led to the shut down of more than 16,000 WebEx Teams accounts and the deletion of 456 virtual machines. […]
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A cybercriminal group specialized in infecting online shops to steal payment card data. is responsible for compromising almost 700 websites and more than a dozen third-party service providers. […]
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Microsoft is discontinuing support for the insecure TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols on its Linux Software Repository starting with September 24, 2020. […]
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The U.S. Justice Department today filed a civil forfeiture complaint aiming to seize control of 280 Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) accounts containing funds allegedly stolen by North Korean hackers in attacks against two unnamed cryptocurrency exchanges. […]
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The FBI thwarted the plans of 27-year-old Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov to recruit an insider within Tesla’s Sparks, Nevada factory, persuade him to plant malware on the company’s network, and then ransom Tesla under threat that he would leak data stolen from their systems. […]
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The U.S. Justice Department today filed a civil forfeiture complaint aiming to seize control of 280 Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) accounts containing funds allegedly stolen by North Korean hackers in attacks against two unnamed cryptocurrency exchanges. […]
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The Qbot trojan is again stealing reply-chain emails that can be used to camouflage malware-riddled emails as parts of previous conversations in future malicious spam campaigns. […]
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The Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware has been updated to compromise Linux machines via SSH brute force attacks, to exploit SMBGhost-vulnerable Windows systems, and to infect servers running Redis and Hadoop instances. […]
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Microsoft released Windows Terminal Preview 1.3 with bug fixes, performance improvements, and long-awaited new features including a new command palette and an advanced tab switcher for navigating multiple tabs easier. […]
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For the testers in the Beta Channel (Slow Ring) of the Windows Insider Program, Windows 10 Build 19042.487 (20H2) is now available with a long list of bug fixes and improvements. […]
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Microsoft today announced that the scheduled end of service date for the Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions of Windows 10, version 1803 is being pushed back to May 11, 2021, instead of November 10, 2020, due to the current public health situation. […]
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North Korean hackers tracked as BeagleBoyz have been using malicious remote access tools as part of ongoing attacks to steal millions from international banks according to a joint advisory issued today by several U.S. Government agencies. […]
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Zero2Automated is a new course that provides training in the exciting field of malware anslysis and reverse engineering. Structured around a community, users will be able to interact with thier teachers and peers to get the most out of this experience. […]
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New Zealand’s stock exchange (NZX) has been impacted by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack during the last two days, forcing it to shut down trading until the connectivity issues were resolved. […]
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A new ransomware named SunCrypt has joined the ‘Maze cartel,’ and with their membership, we get insight into how these groups are working together. […]
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The FBI thwarted the plans of 27-year-old Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov to recruit an insider in a Nevada company, persuade him to plant malware on their network, and then ransom the company under threat that he would leak data stolen from their systems. […]
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A new ransomware named SunCrypt has joined the ‘Maze cartel,’ and with their membership, we get insight into how these groups are working together. […]
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Recently dark web marketplace made an abrupt exit after being subject to a heavy DDoS attack campaign, and extortion attempts. Who’s going to take its place next? […]
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An advanced hackers-for-hire group has compromised computers of an architecture firm involved in luxury real-estate projects worth billions of US dollars. […]
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North Korean hackers tracked as the Lazarus Group have been observed while using LinkedIn lures in an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting the cryptocurrency vertical in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, the Netherlands, Japan, and other countries. […]
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Google has released Chrome 85 today, August 25th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel, and it includes numerous security enhancements, features, and APIs for developers. […]
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With the release of Google Chrome 85 the web browser is now delivering up to 10% faster page loads on Windows and Mac devices due to the use of a new compiler optimization technique known as Profile Guided Optimization (PGO). […]
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Conti ransomware, the successor of the notorious Ryuk, has released a data leak site as part of their extortion strategy to force victims into paying a ransom. […]
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Mozilla has released Firefox 80 today, August 25th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel for Windows, macOS, and Linux with new features, bug fixes, changes, enterprise improvements, and several security fixes. […]
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North American land developer and home builder Brookfield Residential is one of the first victims of the new DarkSide Ransomware. […]
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Microsoft today started rolling out new transcription capabilities and support for voice commands to Word for the web for all Microsoft 365 subscribers. […]
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Microsoft today announced the launch of Application Guard for Office in public preview to protect enterprise users from threats using malicious attachments as an attack vector. […]
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Microsoft is working on resolving an issue caused by a recent update preventing users from accessing the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal. […]
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Zoom users around the world are unable to join meetings and video webinars using the Zoom web client and the desktop app just as students going back to school today have had to rely on Zoom’s teleconferencing platform for online lessons. […]
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Google addressed a use-after-free bug in the WebGL (Web Graphics Library) component of the Google Chrome web browser that could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the browser’s process following successful exploitation. […]
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Low-skilled hackers likely from Iran have joined the ransomware business targeting companies in Russia, India, China, and Japan. They are going after easy hits, using publicly available tools in their activity. […]
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In this article, we’ve highlighted the new features that Microsoft is currently testing for Windows 10 21H1 and greater. […]
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Zoom users around the world are currently unable to join meetings and video webinars using the Zoom web client and the desktop app just as students going back to school today have had to rely on Zoom’s teleconferencing platform for online lessons. […]
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The popular dark web site Empire Market has been down for at least 48 hours, with some users suspecting an exit scam and others blaming a prolonged distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. […]
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Low-skilled hackers likely from Iran have joined the ransomware business targeting companies in Russia, India, China, and Japan. They are going after easy hits, using publicly available tools in their activity. […]
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Update Manager for Windows, also known as WuMgr, is a free open-source tool for Windows 10 that allows you to manage Windows Updates without using the first-party tools such as Settings and Control Panel […]
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is bridging the divide between Windows and Linux by letting you run Windows 10 programs directly within a Linux shell. […]
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While it wasn’t a big week for new ransomware variants, we did learn about some ransomware attacks against very large organizations. […]
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Freepik says that hackers were able to steal emails and password hashes for 8.3M Freepik and Flaticon users in an SQL injection attack against the company’s Flaticon website. […]
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Hackers are actively targeting and trying to exploit SQL injection, authorization issues, and unauthenticated stored cross-site scripting (XSS) security vulnerabilities in the Discount Rules for WooCommerce WordPress plugin with more than 30,000 installations. […]
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint advisory warning teleworkers of an ongoing vishing campaign targeting entities from multiple US industry sectors. […]
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Microsoft continues to migrate legacy Windows tools into modern versions found in the Windows 10 settings with the introduction of a new Disk Managerment tool. […]
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A new ransomware operation named DarkSide began attacking organizations earlier this month with customized attacks that have already earned them million-dollar payouts. […]
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The U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has issued a new regulatory notice warning members of threat actors using registered brokers’ info to create phishing websites. […]
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Security researchers are sounding the alarm about Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) tainted with malicious code that could compromise an organization’s cloud environment. […]
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The University of Utah has paid a $457,000 ransomware to prevent threat actors from releasing files stolen during a ransomware attack. […]
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The Windows 10 2009 feature update, also known as Windows 10 20H2, is almost ready, and Microsoft has released the latest version to the enterprise for testing via the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS). […]
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Microsoft has removed the ability to disable Microsoft Defender and third-party security software via the Registry to prevent malware from tampering with protection settings. […]
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The University of Utah has paid a $457,000 ransomware to prevent threat actors from releasing files stolen during a ransomware attack. […]
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If you are still running Windows 10 version 1903 or 1909, then you have a nice little present coming as Microsoft just backported Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 to these older versions. […]
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Microsoft released the August 2020 Windows 10 KB4566116 non-security preview cumulative update with fixes for an issue leading to the Settings page to crash, preventing users from properly configuring applications and Windows features. […]
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Microsoft says that TLS 1.3 will be enabled by default in all Windows 10 Insider Preview builds beginning with Build 20170 as the start of a wider rollout to all Windows 10 systems. […]
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This Windows 10 Health Report provides an overview of the problems people encounter with the recently released Windows 10 2004 KB4566782 and Windows 10 1909 KB4565351 cumulative updates. […]
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Google fixed a critical bug affecting Gmail and G Suite that would have allowed attackers to send spoofed malicious emails as any other Google user or enterprise customer. […]
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MITRE today shared a list of the top 25 most common and dangerous weaknesses plaguing software during the last two previous years. […]
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A memory leak vulnerability in IBM Db2 relational database could allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive data or cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition in the database. […]
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A hacker has released the databases of Utah-based gun exchange, hunting, and kratom sites for free on a cybercrime forum. […]
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A hybrid DDoS botnet known for turning vulnerable Windows devices into Monero cryptomining bots is now also scanning for and infecting Linux systems. […]
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Microsoft has issued an emergency out of band Windows security update designed to address privilege escalation bugs found to impact the Windows Remote Access service. […]
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Spotify was hit with a brief outage today after they forgot to renew a certificate used as part of their service. […]
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U.S. government agencies today published a malware analysis report exposing information on a remote access trojan (RAT) malware used by North Korean hackers. […]
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Microsoft Teams users have been experiencing issues joining meetings hosted in North America for the last two hours, with Microsoft saying that it’s seeing partial recovery after re-routing traffic. […]
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The Tor Project proposed some defense schemes that could be used in the future to limit the impact of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that have been plaguing defend dark web (Onion) sites for years. […]
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A vulnerability affecting components used in millions of critical connected devices in the automotive, energy, telecom, and medical sector could let hackers hijack the device or access the internal network. […]
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A sophisticated botnet campaign named FritzFrog has been discovered breaching SSH servers around the world, since at least January 2020. […]
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The Kali Linux Team is harnessing the power of the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 by spawning a graphic desktop environment that is shown directly within Windows. […]
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Zoom users are currently unable to join meetings and webinars through the Zoom web client and WebSDK, with the outage not impacting users joining through the Zoom application. […]
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Microsoft says that the Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) endpoint security platform now can contain malicious behavior on enterprise devices using the new endpoint detection and response (EDR) in block mode capability. […]
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Kali Linux 2020.3 was released today by Offensive Security, and it begins the first steps of switching from Bash as the default shell to ZSH. […]
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Microsoft today announced that some insecure cipher suites currently supported by Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) will be removed later this year. […]
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A new attack campaign uses a combination of HTML smuggling techniques and data blobs to evade detection and download malware. […]
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A cybercrime group known as TeamTNT is using a crypto-mining worm to steal plaintext AWS credentials and config files from compromised Docker and Kubernetes systems. […]
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Hackers could hijack user accounts in dozens of fitness and gym mobile applications, even where the two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanism was active. […]
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Cruise line operator Carnival Corporation has disclosed that one of their brands suffered a ransomware attack over the past weekend. […]
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Microsoft today said that it worked with the LLVM and Rust development teams to add support for the Windows Control Flow Guard (CFG) platform security feature into the Clang and rustc compilers. […]
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China has banned the popular Notepad replacement software called Notepad++ due to the developer’s protests against the political unrest in Hong Kong and China’s human rights violations of the Uyghur people. […]
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Google Chrome will warn users when submitting insecure forms that deliver information via HTTP connections on HTTPS websites starting with version 86. […]
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Microsoft today announced the dates when Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 will no longer support the Microsoft Edge Legacy and Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) web browsers. […]
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Microsoft fixed a Windows security vulnerability two years after it was reported. This articles provides greater detail about the bug and how it works. […]
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While the Windows 10’s fall feature update focuses on performance enhancements and bug fixes, these are some noticeable new features that we have outlined below. […]
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Microsoft has started testing two new features designed to help save you money when making purchases on retail stores. […]
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Business technology giant Konica Minolta was hit with a ransomware attack at the end of July that impacted services for almost a week, BleepingComputer has learned. […]
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Canadian government sites used to provide access to crucial services for immigration, taxes, pension, and benefits have been breached in a coordinated attack to steal COVID-19 relief payments. […]
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Ransomware continues its siege on organizations worldwide, with new variants released every day and attacks continuing to be reported. […]
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Your Windows 10 computer has a treasure trove of hidden security features and you need to manually enable them by tweaking the system settings. In this article, we’ve highlighted the best security features that you should try on Windows 10. […]
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Brown-Forman, one of the largest U.S. companies in the spirits and wine business, suffered a cyber attack. The intruders allegedly copied 1TB of confidential data; they plan on selling to the highest bidder the most important info and leak the rest. […]
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SANS has shared the indicators of compromise for a recent phishing attack that compromised one of their email accounts and led to a data breach. […]
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Apple has banned the Fortnite mobile app from the iOS App Store, but there is still a way to install it or update it to the latest version if you had previously installed it. […]
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Google is implementing a new feature in its Chrome Canary build that allows users to create a Windows desktop shortcut that automatically launches the browser into Incognito mode. […]
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A third of the universities in the United Kingdom responding to a freedom of information (FOI) request admitted to being a victim of a ransomware attack. These represent more than 25% of the universities and colleges in the country. […]
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The Emotet malware has begun to spam COVID-19 related emails to U.S. businesses after not being active for most of the USA pandemic. […]
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A new update is now available for Microsoft Edge Insiders within the Dev channel and the main focus of today’s update is the introduction of Kiosk mode and SameSite cookies. In addition, there are a host of improvements, enhancements, and fixes included in Microsoft Edge Dev v86.0.601.1. […]
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Citrix released an advisory on Thursday about troublesome Windows Defender definition updates that break Delivery Controllers and Cloud Connectors running Microsoft’s antivirus. […]
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A ransomware gang has published unencrypted files allegedly stolen from Canon during a ransomware attack earlier this month. […]
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An expired certificate and outage led to an undercounting of COVID-19 cases reported in California after 250,00-300,000 lab results were prevented from being uploaded to California’s CalREDIE reporting system. […]
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A hacker has released the databases of Utah-based gun exchange, hunting, and kratom sites for free on a cybercrime forum. […]
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Microsoft describes Surface Duo as the “next wave of mobile productivity” that will inspire “people to rethink what is possible with the device in their pocket”. […]
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The National Security Agency is warning about espionage operations from the Russian Intelligence Directorate (GRU) using a previously undisclosed Linux malware toolset called Drovorub. […]
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The U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is warning of copycat site impersonating them and potentially being used in phishing attacks. […]
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A versatile banking trojan targeting users in Latin America has been circulating in multiple countries including Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Spain, Peru, and Portugal. […]
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday released an alert about phishing attacks targeting various government organizations to steal logins for the Small Business Administration COVID-19 loan relief accounts. […]
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For the past couple of years, a little known cyberespionage group has been conducting carefully planned attacks against victims in a wide geography to steal confidential corporate documents. […]
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An advanced threat actor exploited one of the two zero-day vulnerabilities that Microsoft patched on Tuesday in a targeted attack earlier this year. […]
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Microsoft is adding a new post-update experience to Windows 10 that displays the prominent changes in a just installed update. […]
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Microsoft will soon offer Windows 10 power users with multiple GPUs greater control over how they can use their graphics cards when running applications in Windows 10. […]
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The Darhma Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation makes it easy for a wannabe cyber-criminal to get into the ransomware business by offering a toolkit that does almost everything for them. […]
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SAP today released its security patches for August, alerting of new critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in several of its products, mostly NetWeaver Application Server (AS). […]
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The SANS cybersecurity training organization has suffered a data breach after one of their employees fell victim to a phishing attack. […]
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Breaching corporate networks and selling access to them is a business in and of itself. For many hackers, this is how they make their living, others do it forced by financial struggles to supplement their revenue. […]
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Today is Microsoft’s August 2020 Patch Tuesday, and while this is just a typical day for most of you, Windows administrators around the world want to pull their hair out. […]
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Today is the second Tuesday of the month and August 2020 security updates are now available for all supported versions of Windows 10. As always, you can download and install the latest security fixes by checking for updates in the Settings. […]
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The City of Lafayette in Colorado, USA has been forced to pay $45,000 after the City’s devices were encrypted in July and they were unable to restore necessary files from backup. […]
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Citrix today fixed 5 vulnerabilities impacting multiple versions of Citrix Endpoint Management (CEM) on-premise instances, also known as XenMobile Server. […]
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Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat, Reader, and Lightroom that fix a total of twenty-six vulnerabilities in the three programs. […]
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Twitter is experiencing a worldwide service disruption preventing users from receiving account verification codes via text messages or phone calls. […]
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A simple one-line exploit has been published for a zero-day pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the vBulletin forum software. […]
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New variants of Agent Tesla remote access Trojan now come with modules dedicated to stealing credentials from applications including popular web browsers, VPN software, as well as FTP and email clients. […]
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Michigan State University (MSU) today disclosed that attackers were able to steal credit card and personal information from roughly 2,600 users of its shop.msu.edu online store between October 2019 and June 2020. […]
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Avaddon ransomware is the latest cybercrime operation to launch a data leak site that will be used to publish the stolen data of victims who do not pay a ransom demand. […]
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Microsoft is adding support for allowing emails containing malicious URLs or attachments to reach the mailboxes of end-users to make it easier to run phishing training sessions or simulations. […]
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A large scale hacking campaign is targeting governments and university websites to host articles on hacking social network accounts that lead to malware and scams. […]
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Online exam proctoring solution ProctorU has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor released a stolen database of user records on a hacker forum. […]
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Windows 10 comes with Microsoft Photos app and Windows Photo Viewer has been retired, but you can restore it by tweaking your Registry. […]
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Samsung has started rolling out Android’s August security updates to mobile devices to fix critical security vulnerabilities in the operating system. […]
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The FBI warns of Iranian hackers actively attempting to exploit an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw affecting F5 Big-IP application delivery controller (ADC) devices used by Fortune 500 firms, government agencies, and banks. […]
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A clever phishing scam is targeting cPanel users with a fake security advisory alerting them of critical vulnerabilities in their web hosting management panel. […]
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This week illustrated how pervasive ransomware has become with news of two large and well-known companies getting hit with ransomware attacks, with more surely to come. […]
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The Director of the U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) today shared information on ongoing election influence efforts linked to Russia, China, and Iran, before the 2020 U.S. elections. […]
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Multiple Reddit subreddits have been defaced during the last 24 hours, with the attackers behind this incident posting pro-Trump messages and changing the subreddits’ themes to show content supporting Trump’s 2020 campaign. […]
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Piriform released CCleaner 5.70 to address a bug that was causing the app to wipe settings for Firefox extensions installed after upgrading to Firefox 79 when cleaning the web browser’s Internet cache. […]
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Popular remote access and troubleshooting app, TeamViewer has patched a vulnerability that could let attackers quietly establish a connection to your computer and further exploit the system. […]
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You can now download and install an old version of the open source Chromium browser directly from the Windows 10 Microsoft Store. […]
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Classified and confidential documents from U.S. chipmaker Intel, apparently resulting from a breach, have been uploaded earlier today to a public file sharing service. […]
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Qualcomm and MediaTek Wi-Fi chips were found to have been impacted by new variants of the KrØØk information disclosure vulnerability discovered by ESET researchers Robert Lipovský and Štefan Svorenčík. […]
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Classified and confidential documents from U.S. chipmaker Intel, apparently resulting from a breach, have been uploaded earlier today to a public file sharing service. […]
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Several security vulnerabilities found in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip Digital Signal Processor (DSP) chip could allow attackers to take control of almost 40% of all smartphones, spy on their users, and create un-removable malware capable of evading detection. […]
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Canon has suffered a ransomware attack that impacts numerous services, including Canon’s email, Microsoft Teams, USA website, cloud photo and video storage service, and other internal applications. […]
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Researchers found a way to bypass a patch Microsoft released to address a bug in the Windows printing services, which gives attackers a path to executing malicious code with elevated privileges. […]
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Hackers are abusing a new technique: combining homoglyph domains with favicons to conduct credit card skimming attacks. […]
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Google says that it took down multiple coordinated influence operation campaigns linked to China, Russia, Iran, and Tunisia by terminating thousands of YouTube channels and several AdSense, Play Developer, and advertising accounts. […]
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Microsoft says that Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) services including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business will provide connectivity support for a smaller number of Office clients starting with October 13, 2020. […]
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What happens when your old budget smoke alarm suddenly becomes Google “smart”? […]
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Microsoft today fixed the “No Internet access” known issue affecting Windows 10 2004 devices with the release of Windows 10 Build 20185 for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. […]
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Microsoft has announced a new feature that allows Windows 10 users running Insider builds to launch their Android apps directly in Windows 10. […]
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Most of the U.S. ProtonVPN servers are under high load as users worldwide battle to be the first to download the latest Call of Duty: Warzone update. […]
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Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 customers can now configure DNS over HTTPS (DoH) directly from the Settings app starting with the release of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20185 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. […]
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Microsoft announced the final version of its security configuration baseline settings for Windows 10, version 2004 and Windows Server, version 2004, downloadable today using the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. […]
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As confirmed by BleepingComputer, users today are receiving emails titled, “Notice of Class Action Settlement re Google Plus…” that offer details on the two-year class-action lawsuit Google had been litigating because of the Google+ data leak. […]
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Canon has suffered a ransomware attack that impacts numerous services, including Canon’s email, Microsoft Teams, USA website, cloud photo and video storage service, and other internal applications. […]
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Twitter today announced that it fixed a security vulnerability in the Twitter for Android app that could have allowed attackers to gain access to users’ private Twitter data including direct messages. […]
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Microsoft Teams can still double as a Living off the Land binary (LoLBin) and help attackers retrieve and execute malware from a remote location. […]
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