ZDNet Twitter said today it’s been working over the past months to bolster its internal security by requiring staff to go through additional security training, engaging in penetration tests, and by deploying hardware security keys …
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ZDNet Microsoft has suffered a rare cyber-security lapse earlier this month when the company’s IT staff accidentally left one of Bing’s backend servers exposed online. The server was discovered by Ata Hakcil, a security researcher …
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ZDNet The FBI and NSA have published today a joint security alert containing details about a new strain of Linux malware that the two agencies say was developed and deployed in real-world attacks by Russia’s …
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ZDNet Mozilla has fixed a bug that can be abused to hijack all the Firefox for Android browsers on the same WiFi network and force users to access malicious sites, such as phishing pages. The …
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ZDNet The owner of controversial video-sharing app TikTok has a September 15 deadline to either sell to a US company or see the service banned from the US market, following President Donald Trump’s executive order that …
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ZDNet Microsoft said today that Chinese, Iranian, and Russian state-sponsored hackers had tried to breach email accounts belonging to people associated with the Biden and Trump election campaigns. The “majority of these attacks” were detected …
ZDNet “I have nothing to hide” was once the standard response to surveillance programs utilizing cameras, border checks, and casual questioning by law enforcement. Privacy used to be considered a concept generally respected in many …
Cybersecurity 101: Protect your privacy from hackers, spies, and the government Read More »
ZDNet Google has removed this week an Android app from the Play Store that was used to collect personal information from Belarusians attending anti-government protests. The app, named NEXTA LIVE (com.moonfair.wlkm), was available for almost three weeks …
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ZDNet The FBI and NSA have published today a joint security alert containing details about a new strain of Linux malware that the two agencies say was developed and deployed in real-world attacks by Russia’s …
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ZDNet The Chinese government has deployed an update to its national censorship tool, known as the Great Firewall (GFW), to block encrypted HTTPS connections that are being set up using modern, interception-proof protocols and technologies. …
China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI Read More »