Month: July 2024
Google has fixed a bug in Chrome’s Password Manager that caused user credentials to disappear temporarily for more than 18 hours. The outage began on Wednesday, affecting users worldwide who rely on Chrome’s built-in tool to store and autofill their passwords. In a Google Workspace incident report, the company says the issue affected approximately 2% of…
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Debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) has again increased the number of people impacted by a February data breach, now saying it affects 4.2 million people in the US. FBCS is a US debt collection agency that collects unpaid debts from consumer credit, healthcare, commercial, auto loans and leases, student loans, and utilities.…
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Despite losing its North America channel chief for a second year in a row, AMD says its commitment to the channel has ‘only strengthened’ as the chip designer bets its next phase of growth on the promise of AI to compete with Intel, Nvidia and others. AMD said its commitment to the channel has “only…
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Microsoft has confirmed that July’s security updates break remote desktop connections in organizations where Windows servers are configured to use the legacy RPC over HTTP protocol in the Remote Desktop Gateway. “Windows Servers might affect Remote Desktop Connectivity across an organization if legacy protocol (Remote Procedure Call over HTTP) is used in Remote Desktop Gateway.…
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Operational expenses and loss to business would differ greatly from organization to organization, and segment to segment. Parametrix, using its service monitoring sensors, estimated healthcare suffering the most at $1.94 billion in direct losses from the incident, with banking and transportation closely behind at $1.15 billion and $0.86 billion, respectively. It estimated the loss per…
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Image: MidjourneyAcronis warned customers to patch a critical Cyber Infrastructure security flaw that lets attackers bypass authentication on vulnerable servers using default credentials. Acronis Cyber Protect (ACI) is a unified multi-tenant platform that combines remote endpoint management, backup, and virtualization capabilities and helps run disaster recovery workloads and store enterprise backup data securely. Over 20,000 service providers use…
Read MoreCompromising the Secure Boot Process This isn’t good: On Thursday, researchers from security firm Binarly revealed that Secure Boot is completely compromised on more than 200 device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro. The cause: a cryptographic key underpinning Secure Boot on those models that was compromised in 2022. In a public…
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From the editors of our sister publication Computerworld, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps IT staff understand what the various unified endpoint management (UEM) platforms can do for their organizations and how to choose the right solution. Source link lol
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Russian-speaking threat actors accounted for at least 69% of all crypto proceeds linked to ransomware throughout the previous year, exceeding $500,000,000. This number is from TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence and analytics firm specializing in crypto-assisted money laundering and financial crime. North Korea is the leader in stealing cryptocurrency through exploits and breaches, having stolen over…
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A Spanish-speaking cybercrime group named GXC Team has been observed bundling phishing kits with malicious Android applications, taking malware-as-a-service (MaaS) offerings to the next level. Singaporean cybersecurity company Group-IB, which has been tracking the e-crime actor since January 2023, described the crimeware solution as a “sophisticated AI-powered phishing-as-a-service platform” capable of targeting users of more…
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