🚨#Apple Security Alert!🚨
Last month, however, #hackers claimed they found a #permanent #vulnerability in the #Secure Enclave, which could put data from #iPhone, #iPad, and even #Mac users at #risk.
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#APP makes such attacks all but impossible. The #cryptographic secrets stored on the physical keys required by APP can't be phished and—theoretically—can't be extracted even when someone gets physical access to a key or #hacks the device it connects to.
arstechnica.com/information-…
On Wednesday, #Twitter experienced a massive #hacker #attack on accounts of world-famous politicians, businessmen and celebrities, including Elon Musk, Kanye West and Joe Biden.
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#Cyber #criminals are increasingly #bullying victims by threatening to leak #data if they don't pay - and the problem is likely going to get worse, say researchers.
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Picked up by the always-excellent #AndroidPolice, #Gmail appears to be suffering from a widespread problem with its #email filters which is causing potentially dangerous, #exploitative and #NSFW messages to be sent directly to users’ inboxes.
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If you think that your #Steam or Origin account with its handful of purchases and achievements is of no interest to #cybercriminals, we have bad news. Every year, #scammers indiscriminately steal hundreds of thousands of #gaming accounts and sell them!
kaspersky.com/blog/game-acco… – at Colchester, Subd. B, Nova Scotia
🚨Update Security Alert!🚨
#Microsoft has quietly pushed out two #emergency #security updates to fix remote code execution bugs in Microsoft Windows Codecs Library. The bug allows #hackers to remotely #exploit playback of multimedia files.
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#Microsoft team identified the group it calls #Holmium as among the most effective in using #cloud-based #attack vectors of all those -- including organised crime and nation-state backed #hackers -- that it tracks
zdnet.com/article/microsoft-…
Over the last few months, the account details of approximately 300,000 #Nintendo users have been #breached by #hackers.
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On Monday, #Intel is announcing its plans to bake a new parry directly into its #CPUs that’s designed to #thwart software #exploits that execute #malicious code on vulnerable computers.
arstechnica.com/information-…
The outage, which knocked a whole host of sites #offline, came about as a result of #BGP #hijacking, said the firm.
"An external network provider flooded the #IBM #Cloud network with incorrect routing, resulting in severe congestion of traffic."
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A #security researcher investigated the simplest type of #app —flashlights—to see how rife #permission #abuse would be. It was rife. The 10 worst offenders with 5.5 million installs between them req dozens of permissions, described as “hard to explain".
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#Security company #Cybereason built a '#honeypot' designed to look like an electricity company. The network was made to look authentic to #entice potential #attackers by including IT and operational tech environments, as well as human interface systems.
zdnet.com/article/ransomware…
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#Citrix Receiver and Workspace app vulnerability affecting Windows clients that could allow a local user to escalate their privilege level to administrator during the uninstallation process support.citrix.com/article/C…
Millions of routers, printers, and other devices can be remotely commandeered by a new attack that #exploits a #security flaw in the #Universal Plug and Play network #protocol, a researcher said.
#CallStranger
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The company @chainalysis claims that it can #trace the vast majority of #Zcash and #Dash transactions due to the fact that most users do not use #privacy-enhancing features.
cointelegraph.com/news/chain…
So are your only options #Google, #Amazon, or #Apple? NOPE! If they were, I wouldn't be writing this article, where I'll introduce you to #Mycroft.
opensource.com/article/20/6/…
🚨Critical Exploit Alert🚨
U.S. Government #cybersecurity agency #warns #malicious cyber actors are targeting #windows10 systems still #vulnerable to a three-month-old #critical #security flaw.
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Matthew Green, a #cryptographer, #security technologist & computer science professor at Johns Hopkins Uni, says companies trying to integrate end-to-end encryption (#E2E) are facing resistance against developing systems to #protect #private communication.
dailyhodl.com/2020/06/05/cry…
#Conduent, a $4.4 billion by revenue (2019) IT services giant, has admitted that a #ransomware #attack hit its European operations — but says it managed to restore most systems within eight hours.
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