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Microsoft: New Outlook security changes coming to personal accounts

Microsoft has announced new cybersecurity enhancements for Outlook personal email accounts as part of its 'Secure Future Initiative,' including the deprecation of basic authentication (username + password) by September 16, 2024.
- Bill Toulas
- June 15, 2024
- 10:12 AM
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Keytronic confirms data breach after ransomware gang leaks stolen files

PCBA manufacturing giant Keytronic is warning it suffered a data breach after the Black Basta ransomware gang leaked 530GB of the company's stolen data two weeks ago.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 14, 2024
- 05:20 PM
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Mozilla Firefox can now secure access to passwords with device credentials

Mozilla Firefox finally allows you to further protect local access to stored credentials in the browser's password manager using your device's login, including a password, fingerprint, pin, or other biometrics
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 14, 2024
- 04:19 PM
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London hospitals cancel over 800 operations after ransomware attack

NHS England revealed today that multiple London hospitals impacted by last week's Synnovis ransomware attack were forced to cancel hundreds of planned operations and appointments.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 14, 2024
- 02:05 PM
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CISA warns of Windows bug exploited in ransomware attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity Windows vulnerability abused in ransomware attacks as a zero-day to its catalog of actively exploited security bugs.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 14, 2024
- 12:39 PM
- 0
Former IT employee gets 2.5 years for wiping 180 virtual servers

A former quality assurance employee of National Computer Systems (NCS) was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for reportedly deleting 180 virtual servers after being fired.
- Bill Toulas
- June 14, 2024
- 11:51 AM
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Microsoft removes Copilot app ‘incorrectly’ added on Windows PCs

Microsoft says it removed a Copilot app that was "incorrectly" added to Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems in April due to buggy Microsoft Edge updates.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 14, 2024
- 11:15 AM
- 4
Scattered Spider hackers switch focus to cloud apps for data theft

The Scattered Spider gang has started to steal data from software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and establish persistence through creating new virtual machines.
- Bill Toulas
- June 14, 2024
- 11:04 AM
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Insurance giant Globe Life investigating web portal breach

American financial services holding company Globe Life says attackers may have accessed consumer and policyholder data after breaching one of its web portals.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 14, 2024
- 08:39 AM
- 0
Microsoft delays Windows Recall amid privacy and security concerns

Microsoft is delaying the release of its AI-powered Windows Recall feature to test and secure it further before releasing it in a public preview on Copilot+ PCs.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 13, 2024
- 10:11 PM
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Truist Bank confirms breach after stolen data shows up on hacking forum

Truist Bank, a leading U.S. commercial bank, confirmed this week that its systems were breached in an October 2023 cyberattack after a threat actor posted some of the company's data for sale on a hacking forum.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 13, 2024
- 07:17 PM
- 0
Ascension hacked after employee downloaded malicious file

Ascension, one of the largest U.S. healthcare systems, revealed that a May 2024 ransomware attack was caused by an employee who downloaded a malicious file onto a company device.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 13, 2024
- 05:52 PM
- 0
New York Times warns freelancers of GitHub repo data breach

The New York Times notified an undisclosed number of contributors that some of their sensitive personal information was stolen and leaked after its GitHub repositories were breached in January 2024.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 13, 2024
- 03:52 PM
- 0
Toronto District School Board hit by a ransomware attack

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack on its software testing environment and is now investigating whether any personal information was exposed.
- Bill Toulas
- June 13, 2024
- 02:43 PM
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Panera warns of employee data breach after March ransomware attack

U.S. food chain giant Panera Bread is notifying employees of a data breach after unknown threat actors stole their sensitive personal information in a March ransomware attack.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 13, 2024
- 02:32 PM
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Exploit for Veeam Recovery Orchestrator auth bypass available, patch now

A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a critical Veeam Recovery Orchestrator authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-29855 has been released, elevating the risk of being exploited in attacks.
- Bill Toulas
- June 13, 2024
- 01:21 PM
- 0
YouTube tests harder-to-block server-side ad injection in videos

YouTube reportedly now injects ads directly into video streams to make it more difficult for ad blockers to block advertisements.
- Bill Toulas
- June 13, 2024
- 10:42 AM
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- June 13, 2024
- 10:01 AM
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Phishing emails abuse Windows search protocol to push malicious scripts

A new phishing campaign uses HTML attachments that abuse the Windows search protocol (search-ms URI) to push batch files hosted on remote servers that deliver malware.
- Bill Toulas
- June 12, 2024
- 06:30 PM
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AWS adds passkeys support, warns root users must enable MFA

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced FIDO2 passkeys as a new method for multi-factor authentication (MFA) to enhance account security and usability.
- Bill Toulas
- June 12, 2024
- 03:38 PM
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