Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 preview build to users in the Dev channel, and naturally, the Start menu and the taskbar, both massively overhauled in this operating system, getting their very own set of improvements. Windows 11 build 22478 therefore includes a fix for the Start menu that prevents the keyboard show more ...
The most recent Windows Insider preview build released by Microsoft to the Dev channel includes a new Fluent emoji experience, therefore aligning this feature whose popularity is continuously increasing with the modern touch bundled with the operating system. Announced back in July, this new Fluent emoji also supports show more ...
WhatsApp already comes with end-to-end encryption for private conversations and calls, but on the other hand, the backups that you create and store in the cloud are exposed. This is why the company announced last month that it’s bringing E2E to these backups as well, no matter if you use an iPhone or an Android show more ...
Sony is celebrating five years of PlayStation VR games and to mark the milestone, the Japanese giant has decided to offer PS Plus member three additional PS VR games starting next month. Although the titles haven’t been named yet, judging by the wording, we expect the promotion to continue even after November. show more ...
Solar Ash, the spiritual successor of Hyper Light Drifter from developer Heart Machine, will no longer release in October. Although the game should have been out on PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on October 26, Annapurna Interactive and Heart Machine announced this week they have decided to delay the game. The show more ...
Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 preview build to users in the Dev channel, though the changes that it brings are once again minor. In addition to the new Fluent emoji that was announced back in July, Windows 11 build 22478 is all about performance improvements and bug fixes, so overall, Microsoft continues its show more ...
Microsoft has officially announced what it calls Update Stack Packages, which according to the company, is a new way to improve how Windows devices are being updated by delivering improvements for the update experience before a new patch is deployed. In other words, they are updates for Windows Update that are show more ...
Microsoft has announced that it’s pulling LinkedIn from China, and the reason is as simple as it could be: the social and sharing component of the platform has made it hard for the company to comply with local requirements, so giving up on the whole thing is pretty much the best way to go. LinkedIn was available in show more ...
Intel has made available a new DCH graphics package targeted at several of its CPUs, namely version 30.0.100.9955, which includes H264 and HEVC DX12 video encode support on Microsoft Windows 11 for 10th Generation Core CPUs with Iris Plus graphics and higher. In addition to that, the 9955 build resolves minor graphic show more ...
One step backward, pivot, pivot again, stop to think a little. My character is holding on to an asymmetric stack of crates (one is not like the others) that defies gravity. While he stands still, I am thinking about how to move it into position so I can take one element and then make it into a step to finally reach a show more ...
A recent review of five entry-level mobile phones retailing for about $10–$20 examined their security in detail. Commonly referred to as “feature phones” or “granny phones” — and often procured for elderly relatives either unwilling or unable to get used to smartphones — such phones can show more ...
The countries involved in the two-day ransomware summit led by the US have released a joint statement pledging to make systems more resilient against attack and outlining measures that will be taken to disrupt the criminal groups involved.
Over 130 different ransomware families have been found to be active in 2020 and the first half of 2021, with Israel, South Korea, Vietnam, China, Singapore, India, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Iran, and the U.K. emerging as the most affected territories.
Researchers at Cider Security have uncovered a security loophole in GitHub Actions that allows adversaries to bypass the required reviews mechanism and push non-reviewed code to a protected branch, allowing it into the pipeline to production.
A large-scale unauthenticated scraping of publicly available and non-secured endpoints from older versions of Prometheus event monitoring and alerting solution could be leveraged to inadvertently leak sensitive information.
More than a dozen prominent cybersecurity experts raised concerns on plans by Apple and the EU to monitor people’s phones for illicit material, calling the efforts ineffective and dangerous strategies that would embolden government surveillance.
The University of Sunderland in the United Kingdom has announced extensive operational issues that have taken most of its IT systems down, attributing the problem to a cyber-attack.
Researchers at Imperva uncovered a new ad injection campaign based on an adblocker named AllBlock. The AllBlock extension was available at the time of writing for Chrome and Opera in the respective web stores.
Multiple flaws have been disclosed in softphone software from Linphone and MicroSIP that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote adversary to crash the client and even extract sensitive information by simply making a malicious call.
The Japanese manufacturer of optics and reprography products said that suspicious activity was spotted on October 10. The possible threat is affecting the company's systems in the United States, Canada, and Latin America.
WhatsApp has said it is starting to slowly roll out the encrypted backups feature it detailed in September. Users will have a choice for how the encryption key used is stored.
HP released its latest Wolf Security Threat Insights Report, finding evidence that cybercriminals are moving even faster in taking advantage of zero-day vulnerabilities targeting the MSHTML browser engine through Microsoft Office documents.
Google’s Threat Analysis Group outlined the novel technique as part of a broader look at APT35, a state-sponsored group that has spent the last several years trying to get high-value targets to click on the wrong link and cough up their credentials.
As reported by Avanan researchers, half of all phishing emails they analyzed in recent months impersonated non-executives, and 77% of them targeted employees on the same level.
The American Osteopathic Association has just begun notifying nearly 28,000 individuals about a June 2020 data exfiltration incident involving their personal information.
The company came forward and confirmed the attack in a Twitter thread, writing that it was "aware of an issue in which some member accounts were accessed and/or charged without their authorization."
Cybersecurity company Dragos worked with CISA, the FBI, the NSA and the EPA to outline cyberthreats targeting the information and operational technology underpinning the networks, systems and devices of US water and wastewater facilities.
OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT marketplace, has addressed a security vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to hijack user accounts and empty their crypto wallets with the help of maliciously crafted NFTs (non-fungible tokens).
The long-running botnet known as MyKings is still in business and has raked in at least $24.7 million by using its network of compromised computers to mine for cryptocurrencies.
Trustwave, a Chicago-based cybersecurity and managed security services provider owned by Singaporean telecommunications company Singtel Group Enterprise, on Friday announced the release of the free decryptor, available for download from GitHub.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5091-3 - USN-5091-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Linux 5.4-based kernels. Unfortunately, for Linux kernels intended for use within Microsoft Azure environments, that update introduced a regression that could cause the kernel to fail to boot in large Azure instance types. This update fixes the problem. Various other issues were also addressed.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3873-01 - Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.2.9 images Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes provides the capabilities to address common challenges that administrators and site reliability engineers face as they work across a range of public and private show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3874-01 - Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3872-01 - Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote-task execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines automatically.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3871-01 - Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote-task execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines automatically.
i-Panel Administration System version 2.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
The operators behind the pernicious TrickBot malware have resurfaced with new tricks that aim to increase its foothold by expanding its distribution channels, ultimately leading to the deployment of ransomware such as Conti. The threat actor, tracked under the monikers ITG23 and Wizard Spider, has been found to partner with other cybercrime gangs known Hive0105, Hive0106 (aka TA551 or Shathak),
A new deceptive ad injection campaign has been found leveraging an ad blocker extension for Google Chrome and Opera web browsers to sneakily insert ads and affiliate codes on websites, according to new research from cybersecurity firm Imperva. The findings come following the discovery of rogue domains distributing an ad injection script in late August 2021 that the researchers connected to an
The U.S. Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday warned of continued ransomware attacks aimed at disrupting water and wastewater facilities (WWS), highlighting five incidents that occurred between March 2019 and August 2021. "This activity—which includes attempts to compromise system integrity via unauthorized access—threatens the ability of WWS facilities to provide
Hardware and electronics giant Acer has suffered a data breach, with hackers claiming they have stolen 60GB worth of files from the company's Indian servers.
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Recorded Future. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Strong identity authentication is more important than ever as organizations face an unprecedented level of attacks targeting their dynamic and remote ecosystem of employees, partners, show more ...
