Cyber Signals: Defend against the new ransomware landscape

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Today, Microsoft is excited to publish our second edition of Cyber Signals, spotlighting security trends and insights gathered from Microsoft’s 43 trillion security signals and 8,500 security experts. In this edition, we pull back the curtain on the evolving cybercrime economy and the rise of Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS).

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Detect Threats with Runtime Security

Credit to Author: Jiri Sykora| Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

With the increasing use of multi-cloud infrastructure services security has become more complex. You need simplified security for your cloud-native applications with advanced container image scanning, policy-based admission control, and container runtime protection.

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Tech support scammers target Microsoft users with fake Office 365 USB sticks

Categories: News

Tags: Microsoft

Tags: USB stick

Tags: tech support scam

Tags: scammers

Tags: Office 365

Tags: fake

Tags: phone call

We take a look at a Microsoft warning related to tech support scammers sending out bogus USB sticks in the mail.

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Explained: Steganography

Categories: Explained

Categories: News

Tags: Steganography

Tags: encryption

Tags: least significant bits

Tags: rgb

Tags: masking

Tags: palette-based

Tags: lossy

Tags: compression

Tags: cropping

Steganography is the prime example of hiding something in plain sight. We look at the basics, some methods, and the hurdles of hiding messages in images.

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Spying on the spies. See what JavaScript commands get injected by in-app browsers

Categories: News

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Krause

Tags: inappbrowser.com

Tags: Meta

Tags: Facebook

Tags: Instagram

Tags: TikTok

A developer and privacy expert created a platform that allows iOS users to see injected JavaScript in their in-app browsers

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Uncovering a ChromeOS remote memory corruption vulnerability

Credit to Author: Katie McCafferty| Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:38:06 +0000

Microsoft discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in a ChromeOS component that could have been triggered remotely, allowing attackers to perform either a denial-of-service (DoS) or, in extreme cases, remote code execution (RCE).

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