Cloud Security

Student Devices Wiped — Mobile Guardian Hacked AGAIN

Richi Jennings | August 7, 2024 | Blackmail, cybersecurity education, Cybersecurity in education, DevOps Education, DevSecOps Education, MDM, Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile Guardian, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, singapore

Hackers ate my homework: MDM software for schools is breached for second time this year—13,000 devices wiped in Singapore alone ...

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TikTok Abuses Kids, say DoJ and FTC

Richi Jennings | August 5, 2024 | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, , spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?

For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction ...

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Prisoner Swap: Huge Russian Hackers Freed — Seleznev and Klyushin

Richi Jennings | August 2, 2024 | cyber attacks russia, Putin, Roman Seleznev, Russia, russia hacker, russia-based, Russian hacker, Russian hackers, Russian hacking, SB Blogwatch, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav Klyushin

Pragmatic politics: Anger as Putin gets back two notorious cybercriminals ...

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WTH? Google Auth Bug Lets Hackers Login as You

Richi Jennings | July 29, 2024 | G Suite, Google Apps, Google Apps for Work, Google Workspace, OAuth, oauth 2.0, oauth abuse, Oauth Application Abuse, SB Blogwatch, securing oauth

G Suite Sours: Domain owners flummoxed as strangers get Google for their domains ...

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CrowdStrike Admits it Doesn’t ‘Canary’ Test all Updates

Richi Jennings | July 24, 2024 | canary deployment, CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, Downtime and outages, outage, Outage Investigation, SB Blogwatch

Corporate incompetence: Beleaguered security firm issues initial post-mortem on Friday’s faux pas ...

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EFF Angry as Google Keeps 3rd-Party Cookies in Chrome

Regulatory capture by stealth? Google changes its mind about third-party tracking cookies—we’re stuck with them for the foreseeable ...

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A Microsoft Windows “blue screen of death”

Global Outage Outrage: CrowdStrike Security Tool Blamed

Richi Jennings | July 19, 2024 | azure, Azure cloud, cloud outage, CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, Downtime and outages, m365, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 (365), Microsoft 365 outage, Microsoft 365 service outage alert, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Security, outage, Outage Investigation, SB Blogwatch

BSODs beyond belief: A buggy update to CrowdStrike Falcon made Windows PCs and servers crash—worldwide ...

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A still from the 1928 animated short, “Steamboat Willie”—the first appearance of Mickey Mouse

Disney 1.2 TB Slack Hack: NullBulge Claims Leak is its Own

Richi Jennings | July 17, 2024 | Disney, hacktivism, Hacktivist, Hacktivists, hacktivity, NullBulge, SB Blogwatch, slack, Slack breach

Steamboat bloat: Hacktivist group wields infostealer Trojan, leaks 1,200 GB of mouse droppings ...

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Squarespace Hacked — DeFi Wallets Drained (Imaginary Money Stolen)

Richi Jennings | July 16, 2024 | API exploit, blockchain, Crypto, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency exchange, DeFi, domain hijacking, Google Domains, imaginary money, Ponzi scheme, SB Blogwatch, smart contract, Smart Contract Security, smart contracts, Squarespace, Web3

DeFAIL: Cryptocurrency fans lose their worthless tokens via phishing attacks on decentralized finance sites ...

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AT&T Says 110M Customers’ Data Leaked — Yep, it’s Snowflake Again

Should’ve used MFA: $T loses yet more customer data—this time, from almost all of them ...

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Cloud Security

Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On