Tag: security
Ransomware and email attacks are hitting businesses more than ever before
Ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) attacks are hitting businesses more than ever before, a new report by Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) has claimed. The report states ransomware and BEC accounted for almost two-thirds (60%) of engagements, combined. There had been fewer BEC engagements this quarter, compared to…
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Southwest Airlines avoided CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage because it’s still running Windows 3.1 — fourth-largest US airline remained free of BSoD errors because its OS hasn’t been updated in decades
A recent global IT outage saw a problematic CrowdStrike update cause millions of Windows computers to fall foul of Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) errors worldwide, affecting airlines, hospitals, banks, and businesses. While thousands of flights by United, Delta, and American Airlines into and out of the US were canceled…
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YouTube is getting throttled in Russia – here’s how to unblock it
If you’re in Russia and experiencing issues loading YouTube videos, it isn’t your internet connection’s fault or a technical bug. Recent reports revealed Russia’s supposed plans to slow down the video-sharing platform by up to 70% by the end of next week. Plans to “permanently block” YouTube in September seem…
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Another major spyware firm has been breached — thousands of devices have private details exposed
A US spyware maker called Spytech has been breached, leading to sensitive data it held on thousands of its victims being leaked online A report from TechCrunch, which has seen the stolen data and confirmed its authenticity, notes an unidentified person “with knowledge of the breach” reached out to the…
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Secure Boot has a major security issue — hundreds of devices from Dell, Supermicro and more all affected, here’s what we know
A supply chain vulnerability, present in hundreds of devices from numerous vendors, has been discovered after hiding in plain sight for 12 years. The PKfail vulnerability revolves around a test Secure Boot “master key” which if abused, can grant threat actors the ability to completely take over the vulnerable endpoints,…
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Several ServiceNow flaws are being linked together to attack companies and organizations
Hackers have been seen linking multiple ServiceNow vulnerabilities to target companies and organizations, and steal user login credentials. Cybersecurity researchers from Resecurity spotted an input validation vulnerability, which allowed threat actors to run remote code execution (RCE) attacks on multiple versions of the Now Platform. The vulnerability is now tracked…
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