Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2021

Geez I'm glad the Facebook stuff was the week before this one! With that (mostly) out of the way, we headed off to Thredbo for a couple of days of mountain biking, hitting trails I've only ever snowboarded down before (yes, we get snow in Australia). Back to normality (I think we can start calling it that now), Rob and I did our book editing session, the Facebook scraping incident (let's stop calling it a "data breach") continued to consume time and in a case of very fortuitous timing, they're c

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 17, 2021

A large BGP routing leak that occurred last night disrupted the connectivity for thousands of major networks and websites around the world. Although the BGP routing leak occurred in Vodafone's autonomous network (AS55410) based in India, it has impacted U.S. companies, including Google, according to sources. [.].

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The Hacker News

APRIL 17, 2021

People talk about the cybersecurity job market like it's a monolith, but there are a number of different roles within cybersecurity, depending not only on your skill level and experience but on what you like to do.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 17, 2021

Microsoft has fixed a bug that could allow a threat actor to create specially crafted downloads that crash Windows 10 simply by opening the folder where they are downloaded. [.].

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2021

Recently I wrote about a country song of encoded KKK/Nazi signals, called “The Big Revival“. It got me thinking about whether a map might show how a KKK revival happened as a result of Woodrow Wilson’s “America First” campaign platform in 1915. And then I found someone at Virginia Commonwealth University already had gone to … Continue reading Mapping “America First” Revival of the KKK ?.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 17, 2021

Recent attacks from Ryuk ransomware operators show that the actors have a new preference when it comes to gaining initial access to the victim network. [.].

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 17, 2021

Twitter is suffering a worldwide outage that started last night and is continuing into Saturday morning with erratic behavior and features partially working. [.].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2021

Google Project Zero security team has updated its vulnerability disclosure policy, it gives users 30 days to patch flaws before disclosing associated technical details. The Google Project Zero security team announced an update to its vulnerability disclosure policy, it could include additional 30 days to the disclosure process for some bugs to give end-users enough time to patch the vulnerability before threat actors could actively exploit them.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2021

Speakers: Sandra Dobler, Daniela Galatova, Shara Monteleone, Nerea Peris Brines, Ibolya Tóth. Our sincere thanks to CPDP 2021 - Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference for publishing their well-crafted videos on the organization's YouTube channel. Enjoy! Permalink. The post CPDP 2021 – Moderator: István Böröcz. ‘To Record Or Not To Record?

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 17, 2021

Google makes it easy to share text with friends and colleagues with a new Chrome 90 feature that lets you create links to selected text on a web page. [.].

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 17, 2021

Plus: Russian sanctions, Europe’s SolarWinds fallout, and more of this week’s top security news.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 17, 2021

Google is bringing its Dinosaur Game to Apple iPhones as an iOS widget that you can add to your home screen. [.].

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2021

Learn how Hackers are Bypassing MFA with Astonishing Accuracy Understanding and preparing for how cybercriminals are bypassing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is imperative for protecting your organization. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a warning in early 2021 that cybercriminals are using the cloud to bypass MFA.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2021

via the comic delivery system monikered Randall Munroe resident at XKCD ! Permalink. The post XKCD ‘AI Methodology’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Our sincere thanks to CPDP 2021 - Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference for publishing their well-crafted videos on the organization's YouTube channel. Enjoy! Permalink. The post CPDP 2021 – Prof. Paul De Hert ‘Opening Remarks’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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