Researchers found malware targeting Mac devices which has silently infected thousands of Macs. The malware has been named Silver Sparrow. The malware is being tracked by researchers at Red Canary, Malwarebytes and VMWare Carbon Black. The malware has infected Macs in 153 countries including the US, UK, Canada, France and Germany. However, researchers don’t really understand […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cyber Insurance Company Coalition Says Claims Payment Down From Last Year Cyber insurer Coalition says that it’s clients’ average claims for losses for ransomware attacks was $184,000 for the first half of this year, down 45% from the second half of last year. This, they say, is because they are doing better at negotiating ransoms. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Japan’s Cybersecurity Minister has Never Used a Computer Yoshitaka Sakurada, the deputy chief of Japan’s cybersecurity strategy office and the minister in charge of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo says that he doesn’t use computers – basically, he has secretaries and employees to do that. He also acted confused about whether Japan’s nuke plants […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update: Apparently if you are running macOS 10.13 and apply the patch to fix the root problem and then upgrade to 10.13.1, that patch gets undone, so you have to reapply the patch. In addition, the patch does not take effect unless you reboot. Just another bit of the mess. The Mac OS has generally […]
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