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Tuesday, 15 March 2022 10:02
Microsoft Testing Ads in File Explorer as Part of Preview Builds of Windows 11
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft, famous for bad marketing moves, is looking to make another one. In this case the mistake has not hit the general public but is in a preview build of Windows 11. The mistake is shoveling ads to people for…
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Monday, 14 March 2022 10:25
The Slippery Slope of Censorship Happening Around the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Written by Sean Kalinich
The internet is a great thing. It has allowed peoples of different nations and geographical locations to meet, talk, share information and ideas. The massively connected world we live thanks to the internet is one where information of all kinds…
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Monday, 14 March 2022 07:32
Why the ZuckerVerse is not the Wonderful Thing Some Might Think it is
Written by Sean Kalinich
The concept of an immersive virtual reality world is one that is often talked and written about. It also has been the subject of several movies. When it is the topic of books and movies, it is rarely a good…
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Friday, 11 March 2022 13:31
DuckDuckGo Makes Changes after Increased Pressure from US Lawmakers
Written by Sean Kalinich
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine and browser company, has come under a lot of negative press recently and now are facing pressure from the US government. They have already been labeled as a search engine for “conspiracy theorists” by many…
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Thursday, 10 March 2022 10:06
New Report Shows WordPress Sites leave 30% of Critical Vulnerabilities Unpatched.
Written by Sean Kalinich
PatchStack has pushed out a report that shows that a shocking 30% of vulnerabilities in WordPress sites are left unpatched. This is not to say that people are not patching (they are not), but the report illustrates that vendors for…
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Thursday, 10 March 2022 08:26
Emotet’s Comeback Shows no Sign of Slowing as Bot Number Exceeds 100,000
Written by Sean Kalinich
Emotet, (not to be confused with Imhotep the ancient Egyptian Polymath) was originally identified in 2014 and quickly became one of the top threats of the decade. After an early start as a banking trojan, the group amassed a huge…
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Wednesday, 09 March 2022 13:25
16 New Vulnerabilities Found in HP UEFI Firmware Implementations by Binarly
Written by Sean Kalinich
The Security Group Binarly has disclosed 16 high-severity vulnerabilities in different implementations of UEFI firmware in HP Enterprise devices. The list of affected devices includes Laptops, Desktops, POS (point-of-sale) and edge computing nodes. The vulnerabilities range in severity from 7.5…
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Tuesday, 08 March 2022 11:58
Another Linux Kernel Bug Found that can allow an Unauthenticated user Root Privileges
Written by Sean Kalinich
Linux, often thought of as a more secure alternative to Microsoft, has not had an easy year. We have seen vulnerabilities that affect the iSCSI subsystem, the Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, the Polkit pkexec component bug and now two Kernel…
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Tuesday, 08 March 2022 09:43
Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Found in 150 Devices Spanning Multiple Industries Dubbed Access 7
Written by Sean Kalinich
Supply chain attacks are always a concern when it comes to device manufacture and distribution. If an attacker can compromise a part of the supply or management chain, they can affect a large part of the market with relatively minimal…
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Tuesday, 08 March 2022 07:52
Google Announces Plans to Buy Mandiant for $5.4 Billion in Cash
Written by Sean Kalinich
In early February, rumors about a potential acquisition of Mandiant by Microsoft started to circle the internet. The response was not positive with many feeling that it was allowing the fox to run the chicken coop. Although unpopular the rumor…
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Monday, 07 March 2022 12:19
Samsung Confirms Breach and Theft of Source Code
Written by Sean Kalinich
Earlier today we reported that the same group that hit NVIDIA and stole source code along with employee logins also hit Samsung and stole around 190GB of source code data related to how galaxy mobile devices operate. The data, according…
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Monday, 07 March 2022 09:58
Firefox Users Urged to Update to Version 97.0.2 over two Use After free Vulnerabilities Found Exploited in the Wild
Written by Sean Kalinich
Mozilla is urging users to update to the latest version of Firefox after two vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26486) have been found to be actively exploited in the wild. Both vulnerabilities are listed as use-after-free vulnerabilities. This type of vulnerability relies…
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Monday, 07 March 2022 08:40
Samsung Might be the Next Victim of the Same Group that Hacked NVIDIA
Written by Sean Kalinich
The Lapsus$ group, the same ones that broke into NVIDIA and Stole corporate data and had their attack VM encrypted, appear to have also broken into Samsung. Lapsus$ has leaked what they claim to be source code for several sensitive…
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Monday, 07 March 2022 08:09
New Banking Malware in the Google Play Store Impersonates Mobile Antimalware App
Written by Sean Kalinich
As mobile devices continue to be a focus for attackers, we are hearing that there is new banking malware in the Google Play Store. The new malware belongs to a the SharkBot family and, according to researchers, is also a…
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Thursday, 03 March 2022 09:50
Large numbers of Medical IoT Devices are Vulnerable to Attack According to Unit 42
Written by Sean Kalinich
IoT devices in general are the bane of most security teams. Typically, they lack basic security features and are complicated at best to keep patched. Much of this is due to the process needed to patch them and the rest…
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Thursday, 03 March 2022 06:48
NVIDIA Confirms Breach as Details Show up Around what the Attackers Took
Written by Sean Kalinich
In one of the “odder” breaches that we have covered, NVIDIA has confirmed it was the victim of a breach that resulted in the loss of data. Information about the breach first crossed our paths about a week ago, but…
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