Items tagged with security
In less than 72 hours from now, Google will start deleting Google accounts that have been deemed inactive. If you want to save your content, there are some things you can do to ensure that your account and associated content is not caught in the snare of the accounts purge. However, the clock is ticking, so you best...
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The holiday season is upon us, which means a barrage of sales on services and products as people find themselves in the gift-giving mood. It's also a time for feasting, and not just on turkey and ham—like nasty little cockroaches and termites, scammers come out of the woodwork during the holiday season in hopes of...
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General Electric is primarily known for its spinning things, like washing machines, supersonic engines, or the GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm seven-barrel cannon mounted on the A-10 Warthog and CIWS weapon system. All goofs aside, GE is quite a broad company with connections in nearly every sector of the economy. Therefore, it...
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The Oakland Sherriff’s Office in Michigan is warning parents about the NameDrop feature of Apple’s iPhones. This feature is found on the smartphone maker’s latest iOS release, iOS 17. Apple says that “NameDrop allows users to easily share contact information by simply bringing their iPhones together, or by bringing an...
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A malware campaign originally targeting Microsoft Windows that began in July of this year is now taking aim at Apple’s macOS. Cybersecurity Researcher Ankit Anubhav shared on the Infosec Exchange instance on Mastodon that it got an update that will now push a DMG file payload when it detects an Apple user browsing...
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The Russian espionage machine is both vast and prolific, as shown by a recent Russian code outbreak making its way into U.S. government systems. With the war in Ukraine in full swing, this behemoth of a program is not only throwing tools and resources at Ukraine, but is also driving its efforts into other countries...
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Your phone number is about to get more secure, and you don't even have to do anything to make it happen. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued new directives for cell carriers that will force them to take SIM swapping and port-out attacks seriously. Carriers will now have to use secure authentication...
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You probably don't need an official list to tell you that "123456" is an incredibly weak password (unless you're a CEO, apparently), or that extending it out to "12345678" or even "123456789" are nearly as anemic when it comes to account security. Nevertheless, the folks at NordPass have published an annual list of...
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Ransomware gang BlackCat, otherwise known as ALPHV, is after the public spotlight following the Reddit data breach debacle earlier this year. Now, the group has breached another organization with MeridianLink and is causing a stir by filing a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to try and spur...
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Software vulnerabilities come and go, but vulnerabilities found in hardware are significantly harder to deal with and lead to more problems, such as with Hertzbleed and that family of security issues that sprung up from simple clock management techniques. Now, researchers have found a new problem with AMD EPYC...
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The Lockbit ransomware group has breached a number of high-profile organizations and companies, such as TSMC in Taiwan, which is effectively the global leader in silicon production. Most recently, though, the international aeronautic and telecommunications company Boeing seemingly fell victim to the group, and...
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The State of Maine is informing the public of the impact to the State’s computer systems due to a security vulnerability found in the MOVEit file transfer tool, a software suite developed by Progress Software. This incident took place between May 28, 2023 and May 29, 2023. During this time, cybercriminals were able to...
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Generative AI ChatGPT has seen exponential growth in the past few months, recently crossing the 100 million weekly active users. However, with all this popularity, a target was perhaps painted on the back of OpenAI and ChatGPT by threat actors looking to make a quick buck or cause mayhem. It seems the latter is what...
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Threat actors have gotten increasingly more creative with their methods, embedding them in devices while evading defensive blue teams along the way. The situation is akin to over-prescription of antibiotics, which could eventually lead to a superbug, but with criminal hackers devising creative and innovative ways to...
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Washington D.C.'s Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a new initiative involving Apple AirTags to combat a rise in car thefts in some neighborhoods. Free AirTags will be distributed to residents who live in areas where car thefts are on the rise in the coming months.
It is not often that a headline involving Apple's...
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In case you weren't aware, VMware operates a security arm called Carbon Black. On Halloween, Carbon Black's Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) announced that it had found 34 different vulnerable Windows drivers that had firmware access. To be clear, that's 34 unique filenames; the actual number of different driver files is...
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A tiny device that's well known amongst the hacking community, known as the Flipper Zero, is wreaking havoc for some iPhone users. The device can be utilized for DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and spam all nearby iPhones.
Infosec user Jeroen Van der Ham noticed while on a train ride that his and other people's...
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Building supply and home improvement company Ace Hardware has seemingly suffered a severe cybersecurity attack and is dealing with the fallout. After an email notice surfaced on Reddit, online sales have gone down, and outbound shipments are on hold while the breach is dealt with. While there has been no direct...
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Over the past few years, there has been quite a concern regarding Chinese-manufactured Internet of Things devices that could be spying on unwitting American consumers. This was the impetus behind a 2022 Federal Communications Commission ban on telecommunications and video surveillance equipment that was deemed a...
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Ransomware has become one of the most prevalent means by which threat actors generate revenue, creating a billion-dollar underground industry. Given this financial reality, ransomware gangs are working constantly to outsmart the authorities trying to stop them, though that has not seemed to work. Now, the Biden...
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Customizing and modifying your smartphone can be fun, but it can also leave you open to security threats. Samsung hopes to ameliorate that risk, however, with a new suite of optional features in its One UI 6 Android skin. A feature, known as Auto Blocker, will lock down your phone to lessen the risk of malware and...
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Since its inception, ChatGPT has been an incredibly useful tool to generate ideas and content, write code, or perform more menial tasks that can free-up humans for higher level tasks. Even Boston Dynamics integrated the tool with its robotic dog Spot recently, to enable it to “talk.” Now, OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT’s...
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