Patch Tuesday, October 2023 Edition

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:51:31 +0000

Microsoft today issued security updates for more than 100 newly-discovered vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system and related software, including four flaws that are already being exploited. In addition, Apple recently released emergency updates to quash a pair of zero-day bugs in iOS.

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A week in security (August 7 – August 13)

Categories: News

Tags: Zoom

Tags: YouTube

Tags: Chrome

Tags: TikTok

Tags: ransomware

Tags: Cloudflare

Tags: robocallers

Tags: security advisor

A list of topics we covered in the week of August 7 to August 13 of 2023

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The pitfalls of blocking IP addresses

Categories: News

Tags: IP

Tags: DNS

Tags: IPv6

Tags: blocking

Tags: domains

Tags: Austria

Tags: Cloudflare

Tags: Freedom House

Using IP blocks to make domains unreachable is a far-reaching method that has undesirable side effects because there is no one-on-one relationship.

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How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:53:39 +0000

Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices.

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Twilio data breach turns out to be more elaborate than suspected

Categories: News

Tags: twilio

Tags: okta

Tags: Authy

Tags: Signal

Tags: Cloudflare

Tags: MailChimp

Tags: Klaviyo

Tags: scatter swine

Tags: oktapus

Tags: 2fa

Tags: otp

Even if you don’t know a thing about Twilio, you may have been affected by their data breach.

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Mozilla adds NextDNS to list of DNS-over-HTTPS providers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:07:38 +0000

Firefox users interested in turning on the browser’s DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) privacy feature now have two providers to choose from.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/jIAyGMDzDjE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Cloudflare adds VPN features to 1.1.1.1 privacy app

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:07:47 +0000

As promised in April, Cloudflare has finally launched Warp, a consumer mobile privacy app that looks a lot like a VPN without actually being one.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/IXc1HLdLZ1Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google experiments with DNS-over-HTTPS in Chrome

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:24:10 +0000

Following hot on Mozilla’s trail, Google officially announced its own DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) experiment in Chrome this week.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MXZMT9v3Sj8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google experiments with DNS-over-HTTP in Chrome

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:24:10 +0000

Following hot on Mozilla’s trail, Google officially announced its own DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) experiment in Chrome this week.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MXZMT9v3Sj8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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