A Tallinn man was arrested a week ago in Estonia under suspicion that he has exploited a government photo transfer service vulnerability to download ID scans of 286,438 Estonians from the Identity Documents Database (KMAIS). …
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Northern Ireland’s Department of Health (DoH) has temporarily halted its COVID-19 vaccine certification online service following a data exposure incident. Some users of the COVIDCert NI service were presented with data of other users, under certain circumstances, says …
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Google Play Protect, the Android built-in malware defense system, has failed the real-world tests of antivirus testing lab AV-TEST after detecting just over two thirds out of more than 20,000 malicious apps it was pitted …
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President Joe Biden warned that cyberattacks leading to severe security breaches could lead to a “real shooting war” with another major world power. You know, we’ve seen how cyber threats, including ransomware attacks, increasingly are …
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UC San Diego Health, the academic health system of the University of California, San Diego, has disclosed a data breach after the compromise of some employees’ email accounts. UC San Diego Health is one of …
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Microsoft has released a cumulative out-of-band update to fix a known printing issue preventing some printers and scanners from working correctly. Addresses an issue with devices that do not comply with section 3.2.1 of the …
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Apple has released security updates to address a zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild and impacting iPhones, iPads, and Macs. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-30807, is a memory corruption issue in the IOMobileFramebuffer kernel extension …
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The No More Ransom project celebrates its fifth anniversary today after helping over six million ransomware victims recover their files and saving them almost €1 billion in ransomware payments. No More Ransom is an online portal launched in …
No More Ransom saves almost €1 billion in ransomware payments in 5 years Read More »
Signal has fixed a serious bug in its Android app that, in some cases, sent random unintended pictures to contacts without an obvious explanation. Although the issue was reported in December 2020, given the difficulty …
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Microsoft has released mitigations for the new PetitPotam NTLM relay attack that allows taking over a domain controller or other Windows servers. PetitPotam is a new method that can be used to conduct an NTLM …
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Security researchers have published details about the method used by a strain of macOS malware to steal login information from multiple apps, enabling its operators to steal accounts. Dubbed XCSSET, the malware keeps evolving and …
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Apple has rolled out security updates to address dozens of iOS and macOS vulnerabilities, including a severe iOS bug dubbed WiFiDemon that could lead to denial of service or arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-30800 and …
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