Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday update deals with 76 vulnerabilities that affect Windows, Exchange, Office, and Microsoft development tools — and three Windows vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-21823, CVE-2023-21715 and CVE-2023-23376) have been reported as exploited in the wild and require immediate attention.
Categories: News Categories: Ransomware Tags: Oakland Tags: ransomware Tags: state of emergency The Interim City Administrator of the City of Oakland declared a state of emergency.after a ransomware attack crippled the city’s services a week ago |
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Read moreCategories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Yerodin Richards Tags: Arris Tags: routre Tags: CVE-2022-45701 Tags: default credentials A security researcher found an authenticated remote code execution vulnerability in very wide-spread Arris router models. |
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Read moreCategories: News Categories: Scams Tags: Hogwarts Legacy Tags: video game survey scam Tags: survey scam Tags: Trojan dropper Tags: adware With Hogwarts Legacy becoming the popular game it was expected to be, online criminals have resorted to old tricks to get users clicking. |
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Read moreCategories: Threat Intelligence Tags: ad fraud Tags: popunder Tags: ads Tags: fraud Tags: wordpress Tags: plugins Popunders are the ideal vehicle to serve ad fraud. In this case, we investigate a scheme where a webpage you can’t see is loading a bunch of ads while code mimics user activity by scrolling and visiting links. |
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Read moreCategories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: Vodafone Tags: Orange Tags: Deutsche Telekom Tags: Telefónica Tags: TrustPid Tags: Wolfie Christl Tags: Aram Zucker-Scharff The EU Commission has greenlit the merge of four EU telco giants to offer millions of subscribers a different kind of targeted ads. |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Vince Kearns| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000
The changing attack landscape has resulted in the hardening of the data breach insurance market. Gain insight into how implementing security controls can reduce the mean time to detect and control the costliness of an attack.
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:46:04 +0000
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:00:00 +0000
Linda Grasso of technology blog DeltalogiX discusses cybersecurity trends and the human and technology connection of cybersecurity.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000
And according to tracing firm Chainalysis, one very prolific scammer ran at least 264 of those scams in 2022 alone.
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