Month: May 2024
Scams Once your crypto has been stolen, it is extremely difficult to get back – be wary of fake promises to retrieve your funds and learn how to avoid becoming a victim twice over 02 May 2024 • , 4 min. read It’s a nightmare scenario for any cryptocurrency user. You fall victim to a…
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Image: Midjourney A Mullvad VPN user has discovered that Android devices leak DNS queries when switching VPN servers even though the “Always-on VPN” feature was enabled with the “Block connections without VPN” option. “Always-on VPN” is designed to start the VPN service when the device boots and keep it running while the device or profile is on. Enabling the…
Read MoreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Purses Squid-shaped purses for sale. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Tags: squid Posted on May 3, 2024 at 5:05 PM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier…
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‘I think it’s a very positive indicator that capital conditions are very robust and healthy, even in a higher interest rate environment,’ says M&A John Holland on the acquisition. Ntiva’s acquisition of The Purple Guys is a landmark sale that one M&A expert is calling “a colossal move” in the MSP industry. With now more…
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The NSA and FBI warned that the APT43 North Korea-linked hacking group exploits weak email Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) policies to mask spearphishing attacks. Together with the U.S. State Department, the two agencies cautioned that the attackers abuse misconfigured DMARC policies to send spoofed emails which appear to come from credible sources…
Read MoreMy TED Talks I have spoken at several TED conferences over the years. I’m putting this here because I want all three links in one place. Tags: Schneier news, TED, videos Posted on May 3, 2024 at 2:13 PM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link lol
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says in a memo sent to staff that ‘if you’re faced with the tradeoff between security and another priority, your answer is clear: Do security.’ In a memo sent to employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella responded to a recent scathing federal report on the company’s security practices by urging staff to…
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Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows. Yesterday, BleepingComputer received multiple reports that reCaptcha stopped working in the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, with the issues also reported on Twitter and Reddit. BleepingComputer tested reCaptcha on our devices and confirmed…
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For the week ending May 3, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Insight Enterprises, D&H Distributing, MongoDB, Intel and Sterling. The Week Ending May 3 Topping this week’s Came to Win is solution provider heavyweight Insight Enterprises for a strategic acquisition that adds ServiceNow expertise…
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NATO and the European Union, with international partners, formally condemned a long-term cyber espionage campaign against European countries conducted by the Russian threat group APT28. Germany said on Friday that the Russian threat group was behind an attack against the Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Party, compromising many email accounts using a Microsoft Outlook…
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