Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps. The trouble with free apps. The app makers must make revenue somewhere and selling data is lucrative. Windows 10: Microsoft...
Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Ticketmaster fined £1.25m over payment data breach. Ticketmaster had a breach in 2018 via a third-party chat bot on its site that exposed the credit card details of tens of thousands of...
Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Apple patches iOS against 3 actively exploited 0-days found by Google. Probably the most important/urgent upgrade ever. Don’t wait for 14.2 upgrade, do it now. U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1...
Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Cops Turn to Canadian Phone-Tracking Firm After Infamous 'Stingrays' Become 'Obsolete'. An interesting attribute of 5G is that legacy stingrays are no longer effective. European ransomware...
Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Trickbot—the for-hire botnet Microsoft attacked—is scrambling to stay alive. Good-ish news for once on this persistent tool so common in ransomware targets. They have a new functional...
Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: This new malware uses remote overlay attacks to hijack your bank account. In case it isn’t obvious, both the Remote Access Trojan and the malicious software installation is prevented 100%...
Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Attacks Aimed at Disrupting the Trickbot Botnet. It is worth noting, that DTTS (Don’t Talk To Strangers) *never* allows any Trickbot-infected computer to reach the authors’ controllers. IRS...
Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Microsoft's Azure AD authentication outage: What went wrong. It's been a rough week for Microsoft users who have first- and third-party apps that rely on Azure Active Directory for...
Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: One of this year’s most severe Windows bugs is now under active exploit. For the third week in a row, this makes it to our top 5. That’s how bad ZeroLogon is. Remember, in seconds, an...
Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: ZOOM finally supports 2FA natively. Many of us have been using Single Sing-on by using Google logins and MFA-protecting such accounts, but now zoom.us offers it natively on their own...
Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Zerologon attack lets hackers take over enterprise networks. Or smaller networks. Or any Active Directory that isn’t patched. If an environment carries the risk of a potential implant...
Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Facebook complains, Apple responds: iOS 14’s big privacy change gets postponed. The company says the change is still coming, but it hasn’t said when. Gives developers time to adjust to...
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