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Cash App breached by a former employee could affect millions

April 7, 2022 admin block, cash app, improper offboarding practices, Insider Threat, Securities and Exchange Commission, Security world, square

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 12:24:51 +0000

Cash App is reaching out to its millions of US users regarding a breach of their data.

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Anti-war open-source software developer targets Russians and Belarussians with “protestware”

March 24, 2022 admin caddywiper, colors, cve-2022-23812, disinformation, foss, free and open source software, hermeticwiper, isaacwiper, national coordination center for computer incidents, nccci, node-ipc, Open Source, peacenotwar, protestware, russia-ukraine, Security world, snyk, with-love-from-america.txt

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:07:26 +0000

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought to life protestware. It’s also beginning to ruin the open-source developer community.

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How to protect RDP

March 18, 2022 admin Business, ransomware, RDP, remote access, Remote Desktop Protocol, Security world, VPN

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:13:37 +0000

RDP is still a popular target for attackers, so how do you keep your remote desktops safe?

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DDoS barrage against Israel described as the “largest ever” cyberattack its faced

March 15, 2022 admin bezeq, Cellcom, ddos, distributed denial-of-service attack, iranian hackers, Israel, israeli national cyber directorate, mike sexton, ram levi, russia-ukraine, Russian hackers, Security world

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:38:32 +0000

Israeli government websites crashed during a short bit powerful DDoS attack.

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Google and Microsoft accused of feeding smaller search engines spam ads

February 25, 2022 admin antitrust law, Bing, DuckDuckGo, gatekeeper search engine, google, microsoft, Security world

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:50:15 +0000

Adtech researchers believe that Google and Microsoft are hoarding the best ads and flooding rival search engines with spam ads.

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Microsoft: Slow MFA adoption presents “dangerous mismatch” in security

February 9, 2022 admin 2fa, Azure Active Directory, cyber signal, google, grzegorz milka, mfa, microsoft, multi-factor authentication, npm, Security world, Twitter, two-factor authentication

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:55:24 +0000

Microsoft says its corporate users are not using MFA, another layer of security that keeps accounts safe. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated problem.

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Tags: 2fa Azure Active Directory Cyber Signal Google Grzegorz Milka mfa microsoft multi-factor authentication npm twitter two-factor authentication

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Senate Committee passes new antitrust bill aimed at Big Tech companies

February 2, 2022 admin aicoa, Amazon, american innovation and choice act, Amy Klobuchar, antitrust bill, antitrust law, apple, chuck grassley, david cicilline, google, Security world

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:14:15 +0000

A highly criticized new antitrust bill is on its way to the full Senate after a Senate committee approved it.

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Tags: AICOA amazon American Innovation and Choice Act Amy Klobuchar antitrust bill antitrust law Apple Chuck Grassley David Cicilline Google

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Coronavirus impacts security conferences and events: check your schedule

March 17, 2020 admin black hat, bsides, cancellations, Conferences, coronavirus, def con, disruption, Events, infosec, RSA, RSA conference, security conference, security conferences, security event, Security world

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:02:04 +0000

We look at upcoming cancellations, postponements, and moves to virtual for security conferences in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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