Systemd, the Linux system and service manager that has largely replaced init as the master Linux startup and control program, has always had its critics. Now, with Qualys’s discovery of a new systemd security bug, …
The country’s hackers have gotten far more aggressive since 2015, when the Ministry of State Security largely took over the country’s cyberespionage. For years, China seemed to operate at the quieter end of the state-sponsored …
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Cloud-based IT provider Cloudstar has been hit by ransomware, taking down its systems. It said it is currently negotiating with the crooks that infected its computers. On Friday, July 16, Cloudstar discovered it was the …
Attackers have stolen 1 TB of proprietary data belonging to Saudi Aramco and are offering it for sale on the darknet. The Saudi Arabian Oil Company, better known as Saudi Aramco, is one of the largest public petroleum and …
Saudi Aramco data breach sees 1 TB stolen data for sale Read More »
US and allies, including the European Union, the United Kingdom, and NATO, are officially blaming China for this year’s widespread Microsoft Exchange hacking campaign. These early 2021 cyberattacks targeted over a quarter of a million …
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Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has seized 17 malicious domains used by scammers in a business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting the company’s customers. The domains taken down by Microsoft were so-called “homoglyph” domains registered to resemble those …
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Joe Biden, the current and the 46th President of the U.S., recently slammed Facebook and the other large social media platforms with some really harsh words. When an NBC News reporter asked the President about …
Facebook refutes Biden’s blame that it’s “killing people” with COVID fake news Read More »
CISA warns of threat actors targeting “a known, previously patched, vulnerability” found in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series and Secure Remote Access (SRA) products with end-of-life firmware. As the US federal agency also adds, …
HelloKitty ransomware is targeting vulnerable SonicWall devices Read More »
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has issued new stricter vulnerability disclosures regulations that mandate security researchers uncovering critical flaws in computer systems to mandatorily disclose them first-hand to the government authorities within two days …
China’s New Law Requires Researchers to Report All Zero-Day Bugs to Government Read More »
Biometric authentication is a key piece of the tech industry’s plans to make the world passwordless. But a new method for duping Microsoft’s Windows Hello facial recognition system shows that a little hardware fiddling can …
Hackers Got Past Windows Hello by Tricking a Webcam Read More »
Conservatives are being censored Claiming that “right-wing voices are being censored,” Republican-led legislatures in Florida and Texas have introduced legislation to “end Big Tech censorship.” They say that the dominant tech platforms block legitimate speech …
Right or Left, You Should Be Worried About Big Tech Censorship Read More »
Many victims of the Kaseya ransomware attack are still in the process of recovering but one victim is facing a particularly difficult issue. Mike Hamilton, former CISO of Seattle and now CISO of ransomware remediation …
Kaseya victim struggling with decryption after REvil goes dark Read More »