Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000
Beyond the blinding speeds and sharp turns on new terrain, the teams at this weekend’s big F1 race are preparing for another kind of danger.
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:57:07 +0000
Far-right influencers and right-wing lawmakers are using the spread of Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” to call for a TikTok ban and boost decades old conspiracies.
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We are now in the third decade of Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday releases, which deliver fewer critical updates to browsers and Windows platforms — and much more reliable updates to Microsoft Office — than in the early days of patching. But this month, the company rolled out 63 updates (including fixes for three zero-days in Windows and Office).
Updates to Microsoft Exchange and Visual Studio can be included in standard patch release cycles, while Adobe needs to be included in your “Patch Now” releases for third-party applications.
The team at Readiness has provided a detailed infographic that outlines the risks associated with each of the updates for November.
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group has filed a non compliance complant with the SEC against one of its victims.
Read moreCredit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Learn more about ALPHV filing a complaint with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) against their victim, which appears to be an attempt to influence MeridianLink to pay the ransom sooner than later.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:38:35 +0000
A new report by an oversight committee in the US House of Representatives says the FBI has routinely violated rules governing FISA’s Section 702 surveillance program and must be reined in.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000
Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:59:14 +0000
Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki, a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy practice and thousands of its patients. In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats.
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Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:08:02 +0000
A collection of 57 CVEs for twelve product families is literally only half of the story this month
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