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Zero Trust Workshop: Advance your knowledge with an online resource
Credit to Author: Mike Adams| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000
As part of Microsoft’s ongoing efforts to support security modernization and the Zero Trust principles, we’ve launched Zero Trust Workshop, an online self-service resource. Read our latest blog post for details.
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Read moreRussia Is Going All Out on Election Day Interference
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Tess Owen| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 21:04:35 +0000
Along with other foreign influence operations—including from Iran—Kremlin-backed campaigns to stoke division and fear have gone into overdrive.
Read moreMan Arrested for Snowflake Hacking Spree Faces US Extradition
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:36:22 +0000
Alexander “Connor” Moucka was arrested this week by Canadian authorities for allegedly carrying out a series of hacks that targeted Snowflake’s cloud customers. His next stop may be a US jail.
Read moreFlaw in Right-Wing ‘Election Integrity’ App Exposes Voter-Suppression Plan and User Data
Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:56:22 +0000
A bug that WIRED discovered in True the Vote’s VoteAlert app revealed user information—and an election worker who wrote about carrying out an illegal voter-suppression scheme.
Read more8 security tips for small businesses
Small businesses have the same security problems as big corporations, but not the budget or staff to match. Here are some tips to help.
Read moreUpdate your Android: Google patches two zero-day vulnerabilities
Google has released patches for two zero-days and a lot of other high level vulnerabilities.
Read moreBengal cat lovers in Australia get psspsspss’d in Google-driven Gootloader campaign
Credit to Author: gallagherseanm| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:30:41 +0000
The Internet is full of cats—and in this case, malware-delivering fake cat websites used for very targeted search engine optimization.
Read moreCanadian Man Arrested in Snowflake Data Extortions
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:10:04 +0000
A 26-year-old man in Ontario, Canada has been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting more than 160 companies that used the cloud data service Snowflake. On October 30, Canadian authorities arrested Alexander Moucka, a.k.a. Connor Riley Moucka of Kitchener, Ontario, on a provisional arrest warrant from the United States. Bloomberg first reported Moucka’s alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday. At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many large companies had uploaded huge volumes of sensitive customer data to Snowflake accounts that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). After scouring darknet markets for stolen Snowflake account credentials, the hackers began raiding the data storage repositories used by some of the world’s largest corporations.
Read moreWarning: Hackers could take over your email account by stealing cookies, even if you have MFA
The FBI has issued a warning that cybercriminals are taking over email accounts via stolen session cookies, whether or not someone has set up MFA.
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