Friday Squid Blogging: SqUID Bots
They’re AI warehouse robots. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news […]
Category: Security
Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign
Maybe the Phone System Surveillance Vulnerabilities Will Be Fixed
It seems that the FCC might be fixing the vulnerabilities in SS7 and the Diameter protocol: On March 27 the commission asked […]
Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites
A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing message service privnote.com accidentally exposed the breadth of their operations […]
Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App
The ProtonMail people are accusing Microsoft’s new Outlook for Windows app of conducting extensive surveillance on its users. It shares data with […]
Unpatched Vulnerabilities: The Most Brutal Ransomware Attack Vector
While all ransomware attacks have negative outcomes, those that start by exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities have the greatest business impact. ————— Free Unlimited, […]
Introducing Sophos Managed Risk, Powered by Tenable
Sophos Managed Risk combines vulnerability management technology from Tenable with Sophos’ threat expertise as a fully managed service. ————— Free Unlimited, Encrypted, […]
‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec
Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “The Manipulaters,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam […]
It’s Oh So Quiet (?): The Sophos Active Adversary Report for 1H 2024
The latter half of 2023 found numerous fronts on which attackers failed to press ahead. Are defenders failing to take advantage? ————— […]
Class-Action Lawsuit against Google’s Incognito Mode
The lawsuit has been settled: Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” the company collected while users browsed the web […]
xz Utils Backdoor
The cybersecurity world got really lucky last week. An intentionally placed backdoor in xz Utils, an open-source compression utility, was pretty much […]