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Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme

October 17, 2023 admin American Registry for Internet Numbers, Amir Golestan, ARIN, Micfo LLC, Ne'er-Do-Well News, spamhaus, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:23:25 +0000

Amir Golestan, the 40-year-old CEO of the Charleston, S.C. based technology company Micfo LLC, has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S., Canada, and parts of the Caribbean.

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Microsoft addresses three zero-days for October’s Patch Tuesday

October 13, 2023 admin IT Management, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Office, Security, small and medium business, windows

This month, Microsoft has released 103 updates to Windows, Edge, Microsoft Office, and Exchange Server. This update also includes minor updates to Visual Studio. Three zero-days (CVE-2023-44487, CVE-2023-36563 and CVE-2023-41763) require “Patch Now” updates for both Windows and the Edge browser for this October update cycle.

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Patch Tuesday, October 2023 Edition

October 10, 2023 admin adam barnett, Amazon, apple, CloudFlare, cve-2023-35349, cve-2023-36563, cve-2023-36778, cve-2023-41763, cve-2023-44487, Damian Menscher, google, immersive labs, ios 17.0.3, ipados 17.0.3, libvpx, microsoft, natalie silva, patch tuesday october 2023, rapid reset attack, Rapid7, Security Tools, skype for business, Time to Patch, windows, WordPad

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:51:31 +0000

Microsoft today issued security updates for more than 100 newly-discovered vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system and related software, including four flaws that are already being exploited. In addition, Apple recently released emergency updates to quash a pair of zero-day bugs in iOS.

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Phishers Spoof USPS, 12 Other Natl’ Postal Services

October 9, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, alibaba, correos.es, dnslytics.com, domaintools, Latest Warnings, poste italiane, posti, postnl, postnord, ua-80133954-3, urlscan.io, USPS, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 20:39:43 +0000

Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. Postal Service (USPS) customers. Here’s a look at an extensive SMS phishing operation that tries to steal personal and financial data by spoofing the USPS, as well as postal services in at least a dozen other countries worldwide.

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Homeland Security confirms your privacy is no longer safe

October 6, 2023 admin apple, Data Privacy, iOS, iPhone, Mobile, privacy, Security, small and medium business

The big problem with privacy is that once you relinquish some of it, you never get it back. What makes it worse is when those who are supposed to protect your rights choose to undermine them. When they do so, they eat away at the thin protections we should all enjoy in the digital age.

US agencies’ illegal use of smartphone data

These are some of the reasons to be so concerned to learn from a newly released US Department of Homeland Security report that multiple US government agencies illegally used smartphone location data, breaching privacy regulations as they did. To do this, they purchased smartphone location data, including Advertising Identifiers (AdIDs) from data brokers that had been harvested from a wide range of apps.

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Are you looking forward to the new age of mobile app insecurity?

October 5, 2023 admin apple, iOS, Mobile, Mobile Apps, Security, small and medium business, smartphones

A contact recently told me that Apple handles thousands of inquiries from people who have forgotten or misplaced their Apple ID logins every day. That’s probably why Apple recently made it easier to access your Apple ID using any known email address.

But Apple reps are also inundated with requests related to third-party apps over which they have no control. As the EU looks to force Apple into allowing apps from alternative app stores onto its devices, a practice known as sideloading, the user experience with Apple devices — and the flood of inquiries and complaints — is about to get much, much worse.

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Message to IT: Yes, you should install Apple security updates

October 4, 2023 admin apple, IT Management, MacOS, Operating Systems, Security

While it’s not universally the case, many businesses actively using Macs for work may not be paying enough attention to ensuring those devices are secured, according to cloud security provider Qualys, which estimates that just over half of Macs remain unprotected by recent security patches.

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Zero trust and why it matters to the Apple enterprise

October 3, 2023 admin apple, IT Management, Mobile, Security, small and medium business

Once upon a time, digital business sat inside the security perimeter. Devices were kept in offices, shared the same network, and were protected by antivirus software, firewalls, and software updates. This system wasn’t perfect and became increasingly specialized, with security teams, networking teams, and others all working in different sectors.

With mobility, this changed. Devices were unleashed from their locations, used their own networks, and stood outside of traditional corporate endpoint protection.

The pandemic accelerated these changes, fostering the evolution of innovative security protections outside of traditional perimeters, such as around zero-trust. The global zero trust security market is now expected to reach $99 billion by 2030, up from $23 billion in 2021.

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