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Security News for the Week Ending October 15, 2021

Microsoft Investigating Multiple Windows 11 Issues While some of the issues are not fatal, others like a memory leak in File Manager that can only be recovered from by rebooting are more of a problem. I recommend waiting for a month or two in order for other users to detect more bugs. Credit: Bleeping Computer […]

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Attorney Client Privilege in Cyber Land

Historically, attorney-client privilege was used to protect conversations between attorneys and their client as they were preparing their defense. While that is still the case, there is a lot of information that companies that were breached might not want to get out to the folks suing them. If it is not done right, it is […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 8, 2021

Mother Sues Alabama Hospital After her Baby Died During Ransomware Attack You know how hospitals say that even though none of their computers are working during a cyberattack, patient safety is not compromised. Unless you were born yesterday, you know that is a lie, but saying anything else would open them up to even more […]

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What Happens When Hackers Steal ALL of the Code to your System

Just ask Twitch. The livestreaming service for video gamers, esports, music and other content fell to hackers. It was acquired by Amazon in 2014 for almost a billion dollars. Hackers broke in and stole 135 gigabytes of data. This includes all of the source code to the platform, transaction data, userids, passwords and other information. […]

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Major Software & Hardware Vendors Cause Self-Inflicted Downtime

Let’s Encrypt is the free HTTPS encryption service that is used by millions of web sites. Since it started out as a good idea of two Mozilla employees in 2012, it has issued about 2 billion free TLS certificates. The history behind this organization is long and convoluted. The industry has a high bar for […]

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