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Security News for the Week Ending July 5, 2019

This is What Spies Do It has come out that western (read one or more of the five eyes countries) inserted malware into Yandex (Russia’s equivalent of Google) in order to steal administrative credentials.  The purpose was, apparently, to read emails of interest to the western spies.  We need to understand that we do it […]

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New Malware Intentionally “Bricks” Poorly Protected IoT Devices

Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial version (IIot) are kind of like the wild west at the moment. People and businesses are deploying IoT and IIoT devices at an incredible rate.  Estimates are that there will be tens of billions of them deployed over the next few years. But that doesn’t help the security […]

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Will Deepfakes Redefine Whether You Can Believe What You See?

“Think of this – one man with total control of billions of people’s stolen data.  All their secrets, their lives, their futures…”  So begins a fake video  using technology and videos of Mark Zuckerberg saying completely different things (see here). It even has a CBS News logo on it.  CBS asked Facebook to take it […]

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Security News for the Week Ending June 14, 2019

SandboxEscaper Releases Yet Another Windows Zero-Day SandboxEscaper has it in for Microsoft.  He or she has released over a half dozen zero-days including four of them just a couple of weeks ago.  He or she has put Microsoft behind the power curve multiple times and now he or she is doing it again. This time […]

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