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Friday Squid Blogging: Another Giant Squid Captured on Video
PRIVACY PRIVACY Here’s a new video of a giant squid, filmed in the Sea of Japan. I believe it’s injured. It’s so close to the surface, and not really moving very much. “We didn’t see the kinds of agile movements that many fish and marine creatures normally show,” he said. “Its tentacles and fins were…
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Top 10 Malware December 2022
PRIVACY PRIVACY In December 2022, the Top 10 Malware list remained consistent with November’s list except for the return of three malware strains. Read More
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WhatsApp Hit with €5.5m fine for GDPR Violations
PRIVACY PRIVACY The case raised disagreements between Ireland’s DPC and the European Data Protection Board Read More
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Ransomware attack hit KFC and Pizza Hut stores in the UK
PRIVACY PRIVACY Anyone fancying a quick bite to eat in the UK may have found their choices more limited than usual on the high street. Nearly 300 fast food restaurants, including branches of KFC and Pizza Hut, were forced to close following a ransomware attack against parent company Yum! Brands. Read more in my article…
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T-Mobile has been hacked… again. 37 million customers’ data stolen
PRIVACY PRIVACY Wireless network operator T-Mobile has suffered yet another data breach. And we shouldn’t be at all surprised if fraudsters use the information that they have stolen to send convincing phishing messages and scams. Read More
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Real-World Steganography
PRIVACY PRIVACY From an article about Zheng Xiaoqing, an American convicted of spying for China: According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, the US citizen hid confidential files stolen from his employers in the binary code of a digital photograph of a sunset, which Mr Zheng then mailed to himself. Read More
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“Workarounds” Helped Royal Mail Resume Shipping After Ransomware Attack
PRIVACY PRIVACY Thanks to technical “workarounds,” Royal Mail has been able to resume “limited” export services one week after being hit by cyber-attack Read More
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Protecting the Universal Remote Control of Your Life—Your Smartphone
PRIVACY PRIVACY Aside from using it for calls and texting, we use our smartphones for plenty of things. We’re sending money with payment apps. We’re doing our banking. And we’re using them to set the alarm, turn our lights on and off, see who’s at the front door, and for some of us, even start…
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AT&T Cybersecurity awarded the Palo Alto Networks 2022 Partner of the Year Award
PRIVACY PRIVACY AT&T Cybersecurity received the Palo Alto Networks 2022 Partner of the Year Award for its managed security services at the annual Palo Alto Networks Ignite 2022 conference. The awards are presented to an elite group of Palo Alto Networks partners that have excelled in performance, enablement, and engagement over the past year. In…
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Phishers Use Blank Images to Disguise Malicious Attachments
PRIVACY PRIVACY Researchers see another sophisticated attempt to obfuscate links Read More