Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: A major FBI botnet takedown, new Sandworm malware, a cyberattack on two major scientific telescopes—and more.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:32:43 +0000
Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting. The company issued a rare, detailed response on Thursday.
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Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Plus: Mozilla patches more than a dozen vulnerabilities in Firefox, and enterprise companies Ivanti, Cisco, and SAP roll out a slew of updates to get rid of some high-severity bugs.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:37:11 +0000
A WIRED investigation into a cache of documents posted by an unknown figure lays bare the Trickbot ransomware gang’s secrets, including the identity of a central member.
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Apple deployments are accelerating across the global enterprise, so it’s surprising that many organizations don’t properly recognize that change. Even when companies put Macs, iPhones, and iPads in the hands of their employees, they are failing to manage these deployments. It’s quite shocking.
That’s the biggest take-away from the latest Jamf research, which warns that almost half of enterprises across Europe still don’t have a formal Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policy in place. That’s bad, as it means companies have no control over how employees connect and use corporate resources, creating a nice, soft attack surface for criminals and competitors alike.
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:30:00 +0000
The competitions, which are held on Russian-language cybercrime forums, offer prize money of up to $80,000 for the winners.
Read moreCategories: News Tags: week Tags: security Tags: august Tags: 2023 Tags: trusted advisor Tags: cyrus Tags: A list of topics we covered in the week of August 21 to August 27 of 2023 |
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 16:06:34 +0000
The sabotage of more than 20 trains in Poland by apparent supporters of Russia was carried out with a simple “radio-stop” command anyone could broadcast with $30 in equipment.
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Credit to Author: Cathy Alter| Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000
A ramshackle team of American scientists scrambled to decode the Nazi cipher before the time ran out. Luckily, they had a secret weapon.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000
The US Secret Service’s relationship with the Oath Keepers gets revealed, Tornado Cash cofounders get indicted, and a UK court says a teen is behind a Lapsus$ hacking spree.
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