Facebook is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities on its platform, using the same strategy its security teams take against campaigns using fake accounts, the company told Reuters. The new approach uses the tactics usually taken by Facebook’s security teams for wholesale shutdowns…
Microsoft says everyone can remove the password from their Microsoft account and use other methods to sign in starting today. The company rolled out the option to enterprise users earlier this year, and it plans to remove passwords from enterprise accounts completely. Rather than having to remember a password or using a password manager, you’ll…
Application Security , Breach Notification , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Breach Notification Report Reveals Some PII Could Have Been Exposed Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • September 16, 2021 The Republican Governors Association was one of several U.S. organizations targeted in March when a nation-state group took advantage of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange email servers,…
The UK, US and Australia have announced a special security pact to share advanced technologies including nuclear-powered submarine know-how. The partnership, labelled Aukus, aims to “defend our shared interests in the Indo-Pacific”, the leaders of the three nations said in a joint statement. US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and UK PM…
A security pact with the US and the UK will enable Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines for the first time. The trilateral agreement is seen as an effort to counter China in the region, but as Sam Roggeveen explains, Australia siding with the US is a “risky bet”. Video by Isabelle Rodd.
The special security pact announced between UK, US and Australia has been welcomed by John Bolton, the former US National Security Adviser and Ambassador to the United Nations. He said, “Australia, the UK and the US are reacting to China. They didn’t put it that way, but there aren’t many other threats in the Indo-Pacific…
Beijing says the deal, involving nuclear-powered submarines, undermines regional peace.
It’s semi-official: Former 23-year Amazon Web Services veteran Charlie Bell has been named an executive vice president at AWS rival Microsoft, where he will lead a newly formed engineering organisation focused on security, compliance, identity and management – presuming he comes to an amicable agreement with his former employer. Bell will be a senior engineering…
Access Management , Application Security , Digital Identity Windows Users Can Now Use Other Methods to Access Microsoft Products Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • September 15, 2021 (Source: Microsoft) Microsoft has officially gone fully passwordless, allowing Windows users to replace their alphanumeric passwords with one of several substitute sign-in technologies to gain entry into…
With system administrators eagerly waiting for a patch to CVE-2021-40444, this month’s Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for 86 vulnerabilities, including those previously released for Microsoft Edge, out of which three are classified as Critical and 56 as Important. Two zero-days have also been patched, one of which is being actively exploited. Needless to say,…
