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....

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: U.S. indicts Russian for attempted ransomware attack on Tesla factory. Instead of accepting a million dollar bribe for using employee access to assist in the...

Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years. Steve Gibson weighs in on Security Now Episode #780 as well. Really not surprising that Red Teams (adversary...

Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: The Secret SIMs Used By Criminals to Spoof Any Number. A must-read. However, it isn’t that difficult to spoof a number right from your mobile without a special...