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Zoom has reached an agreement with the New York Attorney-General’s (NYAG) office to provide new security measures to support and protect users of its video-conferencing application in response to an NYAG investigation into its security and privacy practices. “Our lives have inexorably changed over the past two months, and while Zoom has provided an invaluable […] More
Check Point Software Technologies’ threat intelligence arm has uncovered a Chinese APT group is targeting several governments in the Asia Pacific region, including the government of Western Australia. Check Point Research said the five-year, ongoing cyber espionage operations of Naikon targeted governments within Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Brunei through “government-to-government” attacks. According […] More
Image: Microsoft Microsoft said today that the number of people who use its passwordless login solutions has now reached 150 million, up from 100 million reported last November at the Microsoft Ignite conference. The number covers users of Microsoft online services like Azure, GitHub, Office, and Xbox, the company said, in a blog post celebrating […] More
Over 300 phishing and scam websites – many related to coronavirus – have been taken down by UK intelligence services after the general public flagged over 160,000 suspicious email messages. Launched last month, the suspicious email reporting service is an initiative by the UK National Cyber Security Centre – the cyber arm of GCHQ which […] More
You are one data breach away from having your entire online life turned upside down. The problem is passwords, which are hopelessly fragile ways to secure valuable resources. Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security by the belief that creating a longer, more complex, harder-to-guess password will somehow make you safer online. You […] More
Video communications company Zoom is buying Keybase, makers of an end-to-end encrypted messaging and cloud storage system. The acquisition is the first purchase in Zoom’s history. Featured stories With Keybase, Zoom users will have the ability to add end-to-end encryption to video calls — a significant development on Zoom’s 90-day security push. Zoom came under […] More
Today sees AMD unveil its Ryzen PRO 4000 chips, the world’s first x86 7nm commercial notebook processors aimed at business users who demand security-centric features and enterprise-grade reliability. AMD is pitching its new Ryzen PRO 4000 processors as “the new standard for modern business PCs” offering what is claimed to be the best performing processor, the […] More
Cisco has disclosed a dozen high-severity flaws affecting its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software. The updates address eight denial-of-service issues affecting its security software, an information disclosure vulnerability, a memory-leak flaw, a path-traversal vulnerability, and an authentication bypass. Networking The bug with the highest CVSS score of 9.1 in […] More
