Friday 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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Microsoft announced that Windows users can now log into their Microsoft consumer accounts using a passkey, allowing users to authenticate using password-less methods such as Windows Hello, FIDO2 security keys, biometric data (facial scans or fingerprints), or device PINs. Microsoft “consumer accounts” refer to personal accounts for accessing Microsoft services and products such as Windows,…
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“I’ve been trying to take everything that’s been negative about this and … turn it into some sort of positive,” Robert Cioffi said in an interview. Robert Cioffi, chief technology officer and co-founder of Progressive Computing, one of the MSPs hit in the 2021 Kaseya ransomware attack, traveled about 1,500 miles from his home in…
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