April 2023 – Page 20 – PossibleThreat Articles

The Chinese government is instituting a cybersecurity review of US-based memory chip maker Micron’s products being sold in the country, in the latest move in the ongoing semiconductor trade dispute that pits China against the US and its allies.

The rupture between China and the West over semiconductors is causing chip supply chain disruptions that threaten many of the fastest-growing parts of the technology sector – mainly AI and cloud technology. The chip war is also putting global enterprises in the crosshairs, as auto manufacturing and a host of other sectors are increasingly dependent on the availability of advanced silicon for growth.

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Security Sophos

Researchers claim they can bypass Wi-Fi encryption (briefly, at least)

April 3, 2023 0 Comments data loss, framing frames, snooping, Wi-fi

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:59:14 +0000

They can’t read much of your data, but even a few stray network packets could tell them something they’re not supposed to know.

Independent Krebs Security

A Serial Tech Investment Scammer Takes Up Coding?

April 3, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alan john mykhailov, blackstone corporate alliance ltd, Breadcrumbs, codestoyou, colette davies, david bruno, domaintools.com, drydennow.com, igor gubskyi, igor hubskyi, iryna davies, john bernard, john clifton davies, maria yakovleva, mariya kulikova, mysolve, Ne'er-Do-Well News, safeswiss secure communication ag, secure swiss data, the inside knowledge gmbh

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:13:42 +0000

John Clifton Davies, a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, has enjoyed a successful life abroad swindling technology startups by pretending to be a billionaire investor. Davies’ newest invention appears to be “CodesToYou,” which purports to be a “full cycle software development company” based in the U.K.

ComputerWorld Independent

Ransomware as a service? Windows users can still fight back.

April 3, 2023 0 Comments Security, small and medium business, Windows, Windows 10, windows 11

Ransomware.

It’s one word that can strike a chill in anyone from a corporate C-suite to a home user. It’s sometimes hard to get a feel for the overall ransomware industry (and yes, it’s now an industry). But based on anecdotal reviews of forums and social media, it appears as though attacks against individuals are slowing. I no longer see people report they’ve been hit by ransomware on their PCs.

But it may be that attackers have realized that going after “one-off” targets isn’t the best business plan. In fact, in a recent Microsoft Secure online seminar (registration required), Jessica Payne and Geoff McDonald discuss how ransomware is now a big business, offered as a service by those who sell access to compromised networks to others.

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