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Facebook’s official accounts on Twitter and Instagram have been temporarily taken over and then defaced by a group of hackers known as OurMine. Confirmed as hacked were: Facebook’s Twitter account [source] Facebook’s Instragram account [source] Facebook Messenger’s Twitter account [source] Facebook Messenger’s Instagram account [source] All hacked accounts have now been restored into Facebook’s possession […] More
Image: Bundo Kim techrepublic cheat sheet At the WWDC conference last year, Apple announced plans to deprecate macOS “kernel extensions” (KEXTs) and replace them with a new mechanism called “system extensions.” The first step towards this announcement was made with the release of macOS Catalina (10.15.0) in September 2019, when system extensions were introduced alongside […] More
The World Health Organization (WHO) is working to assist in the containment of the new coronavirus strain but is also having to tackle digital threats made under its own name, with scammers and cyberattackers playing upon the organization’s reputation to spread their own form of infection. Believed to have originated from Wuhan, China, the novel […] More
Image: L O R A A ransomware gang is installing vulnerable GIGABYTE drivers on computers it wants to infect. The purpose of these drivers is to allow the hackers to disable security products so their ransomware strain can encrypt files without being detected or stopped. This new novel technique has been spotted in two ransomware […] More
The first you may know about the next cyberwar might be when your power goes out. Just ask the citizens of Kiev, Ukraine — whose power was cut off for an hour by an attack from Russian hackers. Indeed, you probably don’t know it, but the first shots have already been fired in the US. […] More
NSO Group, a seller of controversial surveillance software to governments worldwide, is due to be hosted by the UK government at a trade fair that has been visited by officials from repressive regimes in the past. The British government will host the vendor at the secretive three-day event, in which foreign delegates from roughly 60 […] More
Forescout Technologies has been acquired by global private equity investor Advent International in a deal worth $1.9 billion. The all-cash transaction, announced this week, will allow Advent to purchase all outstanding shares of Forescout common stock for $33 per share, which represents a premium of approximately 30 percent over Forescout closing prices of $25.45 on […] More
Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk has agreed with the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) that physically seeing the datasets that telecommunications providers are handing over under the country’s data retention regime would enhance her agency’s role. “We have not seen the actual disclosures. We’ve seen the documents that are required […] More
