In response to growing concerns regarding the recent uptick in large-scale, nation-state-backed ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure, the Biden administration is taking new action to tackle the evolving challenges...
Read moreO, what a tangled web we weave/When first we practise to deceive!
Read moreCommercial Location Data Used to Out Priest
July 23 2021
A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis:
The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how...
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7 Hot Cyber Threat Trends to Expect at Black Hat
July 22 2021A sneak peek of some of the main themes at Black Hat USA next month.
Read moreNasty Windows Printer Driver Vulnerability
July 22 2021
From SentinelLabs, a critical vulnerability in HP printer drivers:
Researchers have released technical details on a high-severity privilege-escalation flaw in HP printer drivers (also used by Samsung and...
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Read moreA 18-year-old Tennessee man who helped set in motion a fraudulent distress call to police that lead to the death of a 60-year-old grandfather in 2020 was sentenced to...
Read moreWindows "hives" contain registry data, some of it secret. The nightmare is that these files aren't properly protected against snooping.
Read moreWindows "hives" contain registry data, some of it secret. The nightmare is that these files aren't properly protected against snooping.
Read moreSpam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served
July 20 2021A federal judge in Connecticut today handed down a sentence of time served to spam kingpin Peter “Severa” Levashov, a prolific purveyor of malicious and junk email, and the...
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