Month: August 2024
Search Engine Companies These are typically crawlers or spiders belonging to large search engine providers. They index content from websites all over the internet so they can help users of their search engines to find things on the internet. Google, Bing, Facebook, Amazon, Baidu, etc. all have scrapers that regularly visit every single website on…
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Cybercriminals regularly abuse free services to host malware or to set up command-and-control (C2) infrastructure because they know connections to such services won’t raise suspicion inside networks. Such is the case with TryCloudflare.com, which was recently abused in a widespread campaign to deliver remote access trojans (RATs). TryCloudflare is a tunneling feature that enables users…
Read MoreFriday Squid Blogging: Treating Squid Parasites A newly discovered parasite that attacks squid eggs has been treated. Blog moderation policy. Tags: squid Posted on August 2, 2024 at 5:04 PM • Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link lol
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A recent Google Chrome update has broken the drag-and-drop feature in the Downloads bubble that previously allowed you to drag and drop downloaded files onto any website or tab in the browser. Google Chrome’s downloads menu originally appeared in a bar at the bottom of the browser, but this changed last year when it was replaced…
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Image: MidjourneyThe U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against popular social media platform TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, alleging widespread violations of children’s privacy laws. This lawsuit alleges that TikTok collected personal information from children under 13 without parental consent, violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Since 2019, TikTok has…
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Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled. As uBlock Origin lead developer and maintainer Raymond Hill explained on Friday, this is the result of Google deprecating support for the Manifest v2 (MV2) extensions platform in…
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Comments from Delta CEO Ed Bastian this week seem to allege that the co-opetition between CrowdStrike and Microsoft may have played a role in the massive July 19 outage. For years, Microsoft and CrowdStrike have had what can only be described as a strange—and strained—relationship. This was true long before the global IT outage two…
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Image: MidjourneyA Facebook malvertising campaign targets users searching for AI image editing tools and steals their credentials by tricking them into installing fake apps that mimic legitimate software. The attackers exploit the popularity of AI-driven image-generation tools by creating malicious websites that closely resemble legitimate services and trick potential victims into infecting themselves with information…
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Effective Data Security Management: Strategies and Best Practices Cybersecurity threat management is one of the biggest issues for any organization today. But while there are many aspects to this, one of the biggest focuses for every firm must be securing sensitive data from loss, theft or corruption. This matters because data loss of some kind…
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The semiconductor giant’s stock sank nearly 30 percent on Friday, the day after announcing a 15 percent workforce cut and other cost-saving measures, including the suspension of dividends. Shares of semiconductor giant Intel Friday plummeted nearly 30 percent a day after the company unveiled major moves to cut costs, including a massive layoff of roughly…
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