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Security News Update for Week Ending July 5, 2024

Speculative Execution Raises its Ugly Head Again Speculative execution is a type of attack that exploits bugs or features in Intel, AMD and Arm processors that try to squeeze that last ounce of juice out of that processor in your computer or phone. This family of attacks has been around for years. A famous one […]

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Security News for the Week Ending March 15, 2024

No Honor Among Crooks – Darknet Site Extorts Vendors, Buyers I guess we should not be surprised, but darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has posted a threat on its homepage that if its vendors and buyers don’t pay an extortion of between $100 and $20,000, they will publish all of their transaction and chat records. […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 13, 2023

Utah Sues TikTok for Getting Children Addicted Apparently Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter are not addictive since Utah has singled out TikTok to sue for being addictive. They also say that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance. Indiana made similar allegations and Montana banned the app completely. This will take years, if not a decade […]

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Security News for the Week Ending July 1, 2022

Russia Cyber Attacks Lithuania After Gov Refuses to Let Russian Coal, Steel Trains Through Apparently Russia couldn’t figure out a way to do any real damage, so they launched a denial of service attack against a bunch of Lithuanian web sites.. This includes the state tax inspector, migration department and secure national data network. The […]

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Security News for the Week Ending January 28, 2022

Biden May Use China Rule on Russia if it Invades Ukraine This COULD be a bluff, but the administration may use the foreign direct product rule on Russia, like they did on Huawei, if Russia invades Ukraine. Depending on how it is used, it could have crushing implications on anything in Russia that uses microchips. […]

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Security News for the Week Ending Jan 1, 2021

Happy New Year. May 2021 be more sane than 2020. Microsoft Says Goal of Solar Winds Attack Was Your Cloud Data Microsoft says that the objective of the Solar Winds Hackers was to get into a number of organizations and then pick and choose which ones to attack, leaving the back door in place at […]

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