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Featured stories Security researcher Brian Krebs reported on April 7 that Microsoft has purchased the dangerous domain corp.com to keep it out of the hands of the bad guys. Microsoft is confirming the purchase, but so far hasn’t disclosed the price. (I asked.) Krebs noted in February that Mike O’Connor, who had bought corp.com 26 […] More
Hacking campaigns linked to China have been exploiting vulnerabilities in Linux servers in an operation which successfully stayed under the radar for almost a decade. Detailed by researchers at BlackBerry, the operation, linked to the interests of the Chinese government, is conducting hacking and cyber espionage against a wide array of industries for the purposes […] More
Very few organizations have applied Microsoft’s patch for a dangerous Exchange email server flaw that was being exploited by multiple state-sponsored hacking groups within weeks of its release, according to new research by security company Rapid7. The patch arrived in Microsoft’s February 11 Patch Tuesday, accompanied by a warning from Redmond that admins should patch […] More
Microsoft has released a PowerShell script that helps Windows 10 users securely contribute their computer’s unused processing power to Folding@home. Distributed-computing disease research project Folding@home has turned its efforts to probing coronavirus COVID-19. To help Folding@home simulate protein dynamics, users have already been downloading the software’s client for macOS, Windows, and Linux. But now Windows […] More
Vastly popular messaging app WhatsApp is making it harder to share certain commonly forwarded messages as it tries to crack down on coronavirus rumours and misinformation. As the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues, there has been a rapid increase in the volume of false information and scams related to news about the diseases being shared, either […] More
Europol has arrested a man for allegedly attempting to launder cash generated from a business email scam (BEC) connected to the coronavirus outbreak. On Monday, the European law enforcement agency said the 39-year-old was arrested in Singapore after a suspicious transaction that requested the transfer of funds to a bank in the country was detected […] More
Microsoft published this week details about a new project the company has been working for the Linux kernel. Named Integrity Policy Enforcement — or IPE — the project is a Linux security module (LSM). LSMs are optional add-ons for the Linux kernel that enable additional security features. According to a documentation page published on Monday, […] More
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the planet, the Australian Labor Party’s Shadow Assistant Communications Minister and Shadow Assistant Cyber Security Minister Tim Watts has wondered how Australia would handle a worldwide cyber version of the virus in similar circumstances. “If, instead of a handful of companies being victims of an attack of […] More
