All defenses against Spectre side-channel attacks can now be considered broken, leaving billions of computers and other devices just as vulnerable today as they were when the hardware flaw was three years ago. A paper published on Friday by a team of computer scientists from the University of….
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , Governance & Risk Management Data Protection Commission Sees Likely Violations in Wake of Latest Mega-Breach Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 16, 2021 Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California Ireland’s privacy regulator has launched an investigation into Facebook after personal information for…
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Microsoft is rolling out passwordless login support over the coming weeks, allowing customers to sign in to Microsoft accounts without using a password. The company first allowed commercial customers to rollout passwordless authentication in their environments in March after a breakthrough year in 2020 when Microsoft reported that over 150 million users were logging into…
Some experts said the timing of attack, on the Friday before a US holiday long weekend, was aimed at spreading it as quickly as possible while employees were away from the job. Loading “What we are seeing now in terms of victims is likely just the tip of the iceberg,” said Adam Meyers, senior vice…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about a new malware family that relies on the Common Log File System (CLFS) to hide a second-stage payload in registry transaction files in an attempt to evade detection mechanisms. FireEye’s Mandiant Advanced Practices team, which made the discovery, dubbed the malware PRIVATELOG, and its installer, STASHLOG. Specifics about the…
Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities, Patch Now | IT Security News Threat Watch – Binary Defense 14. April 2021 Microsoft has released a security update for the Exchange Server that addresses four vulnerabilities with severity scores ranging from high to critical. All the security flaws lead to remote code execution on a vulnerable machine and were…
