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Cyber criminals are tailoring coronavirus-related phishing and malware attacks to make them more effective at targeting victims in certain locations around the world, even as attackers continue to distribute millions of malicious spam emails every single day. Google Cloud has detailed how the past month has seen the emergence of regional hotspots for Covid-19 related […] More
Microsoft has released a fix for an elevation-of-privilege flaw in Windows Group Policy that affects all supported versions of Windows. Windows Group Policy is used by admins to create Group Policy Objects (GPO) that enforce settings and software, including antivirus and firewalls, on Windows devices as well as on other networked devices, such as printers, […] More
Email continues to be the most popular attack vector, with a report from Mimecast noting that just over half of those it monitors have experienced a ransomware attack in the past 12 months. In the State of Email Security 2020 report, Mimecast summarised the results of a global survey of 1,025 IT decision makers along with […] More
The way Australian companies approach cybersecurity might not be so different to international counterparts from the outset but what sets them apart, according to FireEye Australia and New Zealand vice president Louis Tague, has been their appetite for public cloud. Tague explained how like most other businesses, Australian organisations are often asking their IT team […] More
Chipmaker Arm has issued guidance to software developers this week detailing mitigations against a new vulnerability discovered in its Armv8-A (Cortex-A) CPU architecture. Codenamed SLS (standing for Straight-Line Speculation), this bug is a classic side-channel speculative execution attack. Speculative execution refers to the concept of CPUs processing data in advance for speed and performance reasons […] More
South Korea will require facilities deemed to be “high-risk” of spreading COVID-19 to install QR code readers, the government said on Wednesday. Places where multiple people gather around indoors, such as fitness centres, clubs, and karaoke bars, will be subject to the requirement, the Korea Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (KCDC) said. People who […] More
Image: Signal Signal announced on Tuesday it has developed the ability for iOS users to transfer the secure messaging app’s information from an existing iOS device to a new one. After verifying the phone number of a new device, the new device generates a QR code that is scanned by the old device to begin […] More
Image: Devin Spell Academics from a university in the Netherlands have published details today about a new vulnerability in Intel processors. The security bug, which they named CrossTalk, enables attacker-controlled code executing on one CPU core to leak sensitive data from other software running on a different core. The Vrije University’s Systems and Network Security […] More
