Items tagged with security
With the recent acquisition of Fakespot, Mozilla is looking to improve Firefox's user experience by tracking fake reviews on popular online shopping sites such as Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart. Reports reveal that Mozilla has integrated...
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Earlier in the year, Google implemented support for passkeys in its products to help move folks away from traditional passwords. In theory, this should make people more secure and have an easier time signing into their accounts, and as...
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In early September, Valve received a radio certification in South Korea for an unknown model product listed as “1030.” At that time, it was unclear what exactly that product would be, though it was known that it would be a low-power...
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“It’s getting hot in here, so patch all of your phones” is not the line but is the case for iPhone 15, which was found to have an overheating problem. Users were finding that their phones would become nearly too hot to touch while charging...
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If Marvin the Martian makes it onto your computer and does privilege escalation to take it over, we might now know just how they did it. A new Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability, dubbed Looney Tunables. that can bump basic...
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If you are reading this on October 4th at 2:20 pm EST and wondering why your devices are making a cacophony of noise, don’t worry as it is just a test. FEMA and the FCC are coordinating to test two emergency alert systems across the nation...
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Chinese threat actors are upping their game in the cybersecurity realm, as indicated by new Linux backdoors and other advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). With this, an international multi-agency team led by the National...
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Side channel attacks are always fascinating to see how they are executed, such as the recent discovery that encryption keys could be stolen by recording power LEDs on various devices. Researchers have found that malicious websites might be...
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Nonprofit NGO National Student Clearinghouse handles student data reporting and exchange, serving 3,600 universities and 22,000 high schools around the United States. However, being “the leading provider of educational reporting, data...
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As it turns out, hotels, and by extension, the hospitality industry, are not the most secure organizations around despite handling personal information and credit card details. This is evident in the recent MGM Hotel breach or even further...
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Trend Micro has been tracking a threat-actor group since early 2021, dubbed Earth Lusca, which is purportedly based out of China. Since that initial discovery, researchers have found the group has utilized increasingly sophisticated...
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If it doesn’t come directly from the Google Play Store, do not download or install whatever application it is. This simple rule could protect you from malware such as that from the Transparent Tribe, a suspected Pakistani threat actor who...
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Misconfigured cloud storage seems to be a recurring problem for Microsoft, who just last year had customer information leak through an exposed Azure Blob Storage server. Now, the Redmond-based company has had 38TB of private internal data...
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While Windows is nearly ubiquitous, great for convenience and it offers a familiar end-user experience, some things are more easily done on Linux. Given this odd juxtaposition of popularity versus utility, threat actors targeting Linux are...
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Using wireless signals to discover what is on the other side of a wall is not necessarily a new concept but one that has improved in recent years with advancements in math and machine learning. This has been showcased most recently by a...
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As it turns out, it does not take a team of highly specialized criminals led by one Danny Ocean to disrupt a massive casino network these days. It only realistically takes a team of hackers to bring things to a grinding halt and...
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This month, the Associated Press is warning that the personal information of AP Stylebook customers was compromised in a data security incident over the summer. What tipped the AP off was a series of phishing emails being sent to AP...
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RDC 2023 kicked off on September 8 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California. The event brings together creators from across the globe to connect with one another and learn about the new and exciting features and products being...
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This week, Wyze security camera owners reported that they could no longer see their own cameras, and in their place, saw live feeds from strange cameras that were not theirs. While Wyze has reportedly fixed the problem, it certainly begs...
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As we await the next generation of iPhone, Apple is engaged with other issues at the current moment, such as two new vulnerabilities discovered in iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and MacOS. As such, Apple device owners should update their devices as...
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Late last year, password manager LastPass disclosed that hackers had stolen proprietary source code, customer information, and password vaults. Since the initial breach, hackers have been able to get into some of these password vaults...
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It's a good idea to periodically check for firmware updates for all of your hardware devices, especially in this era of the Internet of Things (IoT). We could go on a whole tangent about the state of security affairs within the IoT...
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