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Image: Getty Microsoft has warned that the hacking group behind the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack have a new technique for bypassing authentication in corporate networks. The trick, a highly specialized capability Microsoft calls “MagicWeb”, allows the actors to keep a firm position in a network even as defenders attempt to eject them. However, unlike […] More
Image: Getty The former chief of security at Twitter has filed a whistleblower testimony that its physical and digital security systems for protecting user privacy and moderating content suffered extreme deficiencies. Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko was hired as Twitter’s chief security officer by company co-founder Jack Dorsey in November 2020, but was terminated in January 2022 […] More
Image: Plex Plex started life as a fork of the open source XBMC (XBox Media Center) project, now known as Kodi. Back in the day, XBMC put a lean-back UI on top of a wide range of media playback codecs, allowing users to watch stored movies and videos on their TVs and computer screens. Over […] More
Image: Getty/5m3photos A victim of a ransomware attack paid to restore access to their network – but the cyber criminals didn’t hold up their end of the deal. The real-life incident, as detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Barracuda Networks, took place in August 2021, when hackers from BlackMatter ransomware group used a phishing email to compromise the […] More
Image: Getty The vast majority of ransomware attacks begin with cyber criminals exploiting common cybersecurity errors, which – if correctly managed – could prevent most victims from falling prey to attacks. Microsoft analyzed anonymised data of real threat activity and, according to the company’s new Cyber Signals report, found that over 80% of ransomware attacks […] More
Image: NurPhoto/Getty Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee charged by the FBI in 2018 for stealing trade secrets about Apple’s autonomous vehicle project, pleaded guilty in a federal court in San Jose on Monday. Zhang stole the trade secrets while preparing to work for Chinese electric vehicle startup Xiaopeng Motors, also known as XPeng. The […] More
StackCommerce The following content is brought to you by ZDNet partners. If you buy a product featured here, we may earn an affiliate commission or other compensation. Cybercrimes are growing in intensity and frequency, so the demand for cybersecurity professionals is also on the rise. So if you’ve been hoping to break into a well-paid […] More
Amazon ChromeOS is considered secure compared to legacy Windows and MacOS, but Microsoft recently discovered a nasty, remotely exploitable bug in ChromeOS’s audio server with a severity score of 9.8 out of 10. ChromeOS is Google’s proprietary OS based on the open-source ChromiumOS, which itself is underpinned by Linux. Microsoft security researcher Jonathan Bar […] More
