Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 23:58:51 +0000
Free home PCR devices would be technological marvels, and really useful, too. But there aren’t any…
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:34:14 +0000
We give you some simple digital lifesytle tips that cost nothing.
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:09:53 +0000
That infamous “supercookie” bug in Safari has now been fixed. Oh, and there was a zero-day kernel hole as well.
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:57:06 +0000
Latest episode – listen now!
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 19:58:32 +0000
An elevation of privilege bug that could let a “mostly harmless” user give themselves a instant root shell
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:19:50 +0000
If in doubt, don’t give it out! (And don’t forget that no reply is often a good reply.)
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Credit to Author: Naked Security writer| Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:14:23 +0000
The motto of the gang was “In Fraud We Trust”, and they went by a dizzying range of online nicknames.
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 03:31:00 -0800
When it comes to mobile security, users are routinely warned to be extremely careful, avoid suspicious links, emails, and attachments. But the growth of no-click attacks sidesteps these soft defenses.
Google recently drilled into one such attack, which happened to have hit an iPhone. “We assess this to be one of the most technically sophisticated exploits we’ve ever seen, further demonstrating that the capabilities (one vendor) provides rival those previously thought to be accessible to only a handful of nation states,” said the Google advisory.
Credit to Author: Susan Bradley| Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 06:10:00 -0800
Do you need antivirus in 2022 — especially when some options now come with a cryptominer built in?
Several antivirus vendors — some options free, others, paid — have begun bundling their antivirus products with software that generates virtual currency. Of all of the requirements for antivirus, using excess cycles on your computer to generate crypto-coins is not on my list of must-haves.
Recently, Krebs on Security noted that both Norton Antivirus and Avira have told users that versions of their respective software now include a cryptominer. While it’s not enabled by default, it still gives me pause; antivirus is supposed to protect us from such potentially unwanted software, and these two vendors are now including it in their wares.
Credit to Author: Keith Shaw| Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0800
The flood of remote workers at the start of the global pandemic in early 2020 had companies scrambling to find new software for communicating and collaborating with remote workers. Many turned to software-as-a-service (SaaS) options.
It was an obvious choice. Under the SaaS model, applications are hosted and maintained by a third-party vendor and delivered to employees over the internet, making them easy to deploy remotely.