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Microsoft assigns CVE to Snipping Tool bug, pushes patch to Store

March 27, 2023 0 Comments acropalypse, cve-2023-28303, data loss, Microsoft

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:59:15 +0000

Microsoft says “successful exploitation requires uncommon user interaction”, but it’s the innocent and accidental leakage of private data you should be concerned about.

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In Memoriam – Gordon Moore, who put the more in “Moore’s Law”

March 26, 2023 0 Comments "moore's law", gordon moore, Intel, moore, obituary

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:05:44 +0000

His prediction was called a “Law”, though it was an exhortation to engineering excellence as much it was an estimate.

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WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress has an admin-level hole – patch now!

March 24, 2023 0 Comments data loss, Privacy, vulnerability, woocommerce, Wordpress

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 17:48:35 +0000

Admin-level holes in websites are always a bad thing… and for “bad”, read “worse” if it’s an e-commerce site.

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S3 Ep127: When you chop someone out of a photo, but there they are anyway…

March 23, 2023 0 Comments acropalypse, btc, cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, data loss, Google, Microsoft, Podcast, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:59:21 +0000

Listen now – latest episode. Full transcript inside.

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Windows 11 also vulnerable to “aCropalypse” image data leakage

March 22, 2023 0 Comments acropalypse, cve-2023-20136, data leakage, data loss, Microsoft, snipping tool, Windows

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:59:10 +0000

Turns out that the Windows 11 Snipping Tool has the same “aCropalypse” data leakage bug as Pixel phones. Here’s how to work around the problem…

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Google Pixel phones had a serious data leakage bug – here’s what to do!

March 21, 2023 0 Comments acropalypse, Android, cve-2023-20136, data loss, Google, image leak, Pixel

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:58:55 +0000

What if the “safe” images you shared after carefully cropping them… had some or all of the “unsafe” pixels left behind anyway?

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Sophos Partners with Cowbell

March 21, 2023 0 Comments cowbell, cyber insurance, featured, partnership, products & services, sophos endpoint, Sophos Intercept X, sophos mdr

Credit to Author: Sally Adam| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:55:54 +0000

Providing Small and Medium Enterprises with streamlined access to cyber insurance coverage and facilitating optimal insurance provision for Sophos customers in the U.S. through the opt-in sharing of endpoint health security data.

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