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August Patch Pileup: Microsoft’s Zero-Day Doozy Dump

Richi Jennings | August 14, 2024 | Adobe patch, august patch tuesday, CVE-2024-21302, CVE-2024-38106, CVE-2024-38107, CVE-2024-38178, CVE-2024-38189, CVE-2024-38193, CVE-2024-38199, CVE-2024-38200, CVE-2024-38202, CVE-2024-38213, Microsoft patch tuesday, Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2024, Patch Tuesday, SB Blogwatch

See These CVEs: Patch Tuesday—ten zero-days, seven Critical vulns, zero time to waste ...

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WTH? DPRK WFH Ransomware Redux: 3rd Person Charged

Richi Jennings | August 13, 2024 | Andrew M., DPRK, Korea, Korean military, Korean ransomware, Matthew Isaac Knoot, North Korea, North Korean Hacking, North Korean Threat Actors, northkorea, Noth Korea, SB Blogwatch

North Korean army of remote IT workers enabled by Matthew Isaac Knoot, alleges DoJ ...

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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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CrowdStrike Sued? — Delta Dials David Boies

Richi Jennings | July 31, 2024 | CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike incident;, Delta Airlines, falcon, SB Blogwatch

Is Delta the First of Many? Airline calls in attorneys Boies Schiller Flexner to claw back its cash ...

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PKfail: 800+ Major PC Models have Insecure ‘Secure Boot’

Richi Jennings | July 26, 2024 | Binarly, BIOS, BIOS update, Certificate and Key Management, hardware supply chain, key management, Key Management Problem, PKfail, Private Key Management, SB Blogwatch, secure boot, UEFI, UEFI Failing, UEFI firmware, UEFI vulnerabilities, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

Big BIOS bother: Hundreds of PC models from vendors such as HP, Lenovo, Dell, Intel, Acer and Gigabyte shipped with useless boot protection—using private keys that aren’t private ...

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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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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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Securing the Edge

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