Beware of that update; it may open a back door into your network. Yup. We have trained people to install updates to protect their systems. That works unless the hackers create fake updates for software like Chrome, Zoom and Teams. They even have given the fake updates names that seem real like MicrosoftTeams.msi. The hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]09.11.25 Security News Bites 45 New Domains Linked to China’s Salt Typhoon Salt Typhoon is the group that hacked all the big telephone companies including the FBI’s wiretap portal. Recently the FBI says that the group hacked over 200 US companies. Now researchers have identified more domains being used by Salt Typhoon and another Chinese […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Switzerland has been known for being a privacy haven for decades. For years it wouldn’t even reveal banking information to law enforcement except under really limited conditions. That is now distant history. But now Switzerland is joining countries like Russia and China and instituting the ability to mass surveil its population (and even foreigners who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Batteries are used to store energy produced by photocells for when the sun isn’t shining. DoD base Camp Lejeune used Duke to install a battery energy storage system or BESS made by Japanese company Toshiba, but the batteries in the system are Chinese and send data back to China, Researchers have also shown that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Two cables linking Europe to the Middle East and Asia have reportedly been damaged in the Red Sea affecting Internet traffic between these locations. While cable cuts happen periodically, this one seems a bit suspicious. In the past the Houthis have claimed they did not do this, that is kind of like Jeffrey Dahmer saying […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Qantas posted a notice on its web site in July that a cyber attack exposed data of about 6 million customers. The data included names, emails phone numbers and birth dates but no financial or passport info, so in the grand scheme of cyber attacks, there have been a lot worse. “The incident occurred when a cyber […]
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