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Cyber Security Roundup for May 2020
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, April 2020.As well reported, UK foreign exchange firm Travelex business ...
Zero-Day Flaw Allowed Attackers to Achieve RCE on Firewalls
British security firm Sophos determined that malicious actors had abused a zero-day vulnerability to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on some of its firewall products. According to Sophos, the attack chain began ...
Sipping from the Coronavirus Domain Firehose
Security experts are poring over thousands of new Coronavirus-themed domain names registered each day, but this often manual effort struggles to keep pace with the flood of domains invoking the virus to ...
Sophos CEO: Pending Acquisition Part of Larger Services Shift
The pending $3.9 billion acquisition of Sophos by Thoma Bravo, announced this week, is part of a larger effort to transform how cybersecurity is achieved and maintained. Sophos CEO Kris Hagerman said ...
Sophos Acquires Rook Security to Extend Services Strategy
Sophos today announced it has acquired Rook Security, a provider of a managed set of detection and response services that will further advance the company’s expansion into cybersecurity services. Company CTO Joe ...
Android and OneDrive, and iOS-targeting phish
OneDrive app for Android updated with fingerprint authentication; iOS phishing scam that connects to fake Apple Care ...
Trojanized Android firmware & how to check Android apps for unencrypted data
Trojanized firmware found in 141 low-cost Android devices, and checking whether Android apps send unencrypted data ...
Disconcerting Android stories and one bit of good news
Facebook demands too much privilege, Kaspersky on cyberespionage in the Middle East, Symantec on malware returning to Google Play, and Sophos on Google's insisting (at last) that device makers patch properly ...
Firefox for iOS: tracking protection by default
Firefox for iOS: tracking protection now on by default. Mozilla announcement and commentary from Sophos ...
Siri leak
Paul Ducklin for Sophos: How Siri leaks your private iPhone messages, and how to stop her ...
