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LG TV Vulnerabilities Expose 91,000 Devices
The issues identified permit unauthorized access to the TV’s root system by bypassing authorization mechanisms Read More
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Stay Cyber Savvy: Your 5-Step Guide to Outsmarting Phishing Scams
In today’s digital landscape, distinguishing between legitimate communications and phishing attempts can feel like navigating a labyrinth blindfolded. Phishing is a deceptive tactic where cybercriminals use fraudulent emails, texts, or messages to trick individuals into revealing sensitive information or clicking on malicious links. And let’s not forget its crafty sibling, “smishing” – the text message…
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Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers
On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to redirect to “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com, which is currently rendered as fedex.com in tweets.…
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Women Experience Exclusion Twice as Often as Men in Cybersecurity
A WiCyS report detailed the causes of disparities in the experiences of women working in cybersecurity compared to men, including respect and exclusion Read More
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Windows: New ‘BatBadBut’ Rust Vulnerability Given Highest Severity Score
A flaw in the Rust standard library exposes Windows systems to command injection attacks Read More
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US Claims to Have Recovered $1.4bn in COVID Fraud
The DoJ says it has seized $1.4bn and charged 3500 defendants in COVID fraud cases since 2021 Read More
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In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024
Last week I posted a short memorial of Ross Anderson. The Communications of the ACM asked me to expand it. Here’s the longer version. Read More
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Microsoft Patches 150 Flaws Including Two Zero-Days
April’s Patch Tuesday saw fixes for 150 CVEs, including two being actively exploited in the wild Read More
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The Security Risks of Microsoft Bing AI Chat at this Time
The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. AI has long since been an intriguing topic for every tech-savvy person, and the concept of AI chatbots is not entirely new. In…
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Half of UK Businesses Hit by Cyber-Incident in Past Year, UK Government Finds
The UK Government’s latest Cyber Security Breaches Survey found a large increase in the proportion of businesses impacted by a cyber-attack or breach in the past 12 months Read More