Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000
Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them.
Read moreCredit to Author: Rob Lefferts| Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0000
Microsoft has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security, Q4 2023 report.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Vasu Jakkal| Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0000
Learn more about Microsoft Security Copilot—including its integration with Microsoft 365 Defender—as well as our latest innovations and announcements, and how your organization can get early access.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:30:00 +0000
Since early October 2023, Microsoft has observed North Korean nation-state threat actors Diamond Sleet and Onyx Sleet exploiting the Jet Brains TeamCity CVE-2023-42793 remote-code execution vulnerability. Given supply chain attacks carried out by these threat actors in the past, Microsoft assesses that this activity poses a particularly high risk to organizations who are affected.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Rudra Mitra| Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0000
Since our announcement in July 2023, we have made significant efforts to enhance the access of Microsoft Purview’s audit logging. This ongoing work expands accessibility and flexibility to cloud security logs. Read about the additional updates coming to Microsoft Purview Audit in the coming weeks.
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 21:02:16 +0000
Hamas has threatened to broadcast videos of hostage executions. With the war between Israel and Hamas poised to enter a new phase, are social platforms ready?
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: IT workers secretly funnel money to North Korea, a court in the US upholds keyword search warrants, and WhatsApp gets a passwordless upgrade on Android
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Credit to Author: Justin Ling| Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Hamas has long touted its military drones, but little is known about the true scale of the threat. The answer may have consequences for people on both sides of the Israel-Gaza border.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:59:52 +0000
With a new emphasis on the Hamas attacks on Israel, the US Treasury has proposed designating foreign cryptocurrency “mixer” services as money launderers and national security threats.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:08:27 +0000
A 22-year-old New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for participating in a firebombing and a shooting at homes in Pennsylvania last year. Patrick McGovern-Allen was the subject of a Sept. 4, 2022 story here about the emergence of “violence-as-a-service” offerings, where random people from the Internet hire themselves out to perform a variety of local, physical attacks, including firebombing a home, “bricking” windows, slashing tires, or performing a drive-by shooting at someone’s residence.
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