Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Opening a TXT file on macOS can be dangerous. This one is patched now, if you’re up-to-date, but ouch! Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail. Much more serious than the first, also patched, but this is a good reminder why we…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Big Tech’s danger to kids finally aligns Democrats, Republicans. This fact of danger isn’t news to anyone I know, but what a lesson it is for all of us, that we must be diligent long before politicians get involved. Software vendors would…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: A long read, but well worth it, “Your Face Is Not Your Own” is another deep dive on ClearviewAI: “When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Microsoft investigates potential ties between partner security firm, Exchange Server attack code leak. Exploit tools used in widespread attacks reportedly are similar to PoC code privately distributed by Microsoft to vendors. Giant Datacenter Fire Takes Down Government Hacking Infrastructure. Raiu said that…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Facebook will pay $650 million to settle class action suit centered on Illinois privacy law. This is good news to the tune of over $300 to over a million Illinois residents. More importantly, the winds of privacy are further shifting in the…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Apple Is Going to Make It Harder to Hack iPhones With Zero-Click Attacks. In iOS 14.5 it will become that much harder for zero-click attacks to occur. Update as soon as it’s out. Russia’s GRU has targeted electrical grid access for years.…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped. This story is still developing, but it’s great news this was detected this early before any payloads were run. ‘Antivirus is dead’: The rising enterprise security threats for 2021 and how to…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Hackers try to poison Florida town’s water supply after computer breach. Bioterrorism is here. We can and need to start being more proactive on our food and water supply chains. How a supply chain attack let one researcher hack into Apple, Microsoft…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Ziggy ransomware shuts down and releases victims’ decryption keys. Way to start Monday with some good news. These ransomware authors are afraid their crime will catch up with them so they’ve apologized publicly and released the keys. Hackers post detailed patient medical…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS MALWARE EMOTET DISRUPTED THROUGH GLOBAL ACTION. This is a feel-good moment, when the Command & Control system itself is taken over by law enforcement, and then used to disinfect itself. North Korea targets — and dupes — a slew…
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