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Russian TV listings hacked with messages about war crimes in Ukraine
PRIVACY PRIVACY As Russian state TV broadcast a military parade as part of Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, viewers of some channels were greeted by a message that certainly wasn’t approved by Putin’s propaganda machine… Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Trackers
PRIVACY PRIVACY Apple Mail now blocks email trackers by default. Most email newsletters you get include an invisible “image,” typically a single white pixel, with a unique file name. The server keeps track of every time this “image” is opened and by which IP address. This quirk of internet history means that marketers can track…
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Stories from the SOC – Command and Control
PRIVACY PRIVACY Stories from the SOC is a blog series that describes recent real-world security incident investigations conducted and reported by the AT&T SOC analyst team for AT&T Managed Extended Detection and Response customers. Executive summary Once a malicious actor has gained initial access to an internal asset, they may attempt to conduct command and…
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Treasury Sanctions Crypto Firm After North Korea’s $620m Heist
PRIVACY PRIVACY Blender.io is the first crypto mixing service to be hit Read More
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London Police Warn of Crypto Muggings – Report
PRIVACY PRIVACY Criminals combine physical and digital techniques Read More
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Security leaders chart new post-CISO career paths
PRIVACY PRIVACY Mike Engle started on the CISO career track early in his career, moving up to senior vice president of information and corporate security at Lehman Brothers in the early 2000s Engle says he thought the professional path was a good fit, explaining that he found security technologies, such as encryption, fascinating and the…
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23 DevSecOps tools for baking security into the development process
PRIVACY PRIVACY Because of DevOps’ agile, continuous, and fast nature, building in security is essential, but many organizations struggle to do so. While that struggle is often a cultural lack of organizational priority, or even a process challenge, good tools can help enterprises to put the Sec in DevOps. These tools help organizations to help…
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US Government Offers $15m Reward for Info on Conti Actors
PRIVACY PRIVACY State Department turns up the heat on co-conspirators Read More
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Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords
PRIVACY PRIVACY Apple, Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. Experts say the changes should help defeat many types of phishing attacks and ease the overall password…
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Are You Playing A Role In Protecting Your Online Privacy?
PRIVACY PRIVACY Like most things in life, online privacy is a 2-way street. As consumers, we expect the companies we deal with online to manage and safeguard our data to a super professional level however we also have a role to play here too. So, this Privacy Awareness Week (PAW), let’s focus on what we…