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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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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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David Boies, founding partner and chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner, LLP

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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From Geopolitics to Boardrooms: The Impact of the Kaspersky Ban

Andrew Borene | July 31, 2024 | Antivirus software, Compliance, cyberespionage, national security, threats

On the heels of the recent U.S. ban on Kaspersky antivirus software, it was expected that Kaspersky would begin to remove resources in the U.S. However, few expected them to lay off ...

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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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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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Survey Sees Modern CISOs Becoming More Comfortable With Risk

Michael Vizard | July 11, 2024 | CISOs, Cybersecurity, risk, zero trust

A survey of 1,031 CISOs finds that cybersecurity leaders are paradoxically getting more comfortable with current levels of risks at a time when CEOs may be finally becoming more cautious ...

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