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29 Sep, 2023
Big Data, Cybersecurity, Data security, hardware, networking, Security, security administration, Security News, security threats, web hosting, web servers
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Image: Sergey Nivens/Adobe Stock Open directories are a severe security threat to organizations as they might leak sensitive data, intellectual property or technical data that could allow an attacker to compromise the entire system. According to new research from Censys, an internet intelligence platform, more than 2,000 TB of unprotected . . . Read more

by Paul Ducklin We’ve written about the uncertainty of Apple’s security update process many times before. We’ve had urgent updates accompanied by email notifications that warned us of zero-day bugs that needed fixing right away, because crooks were already onto them… …but without even the vaguest description of what sort . . . Read more

The problem with anniversaries is that there’s an almost infinite number of them every day…
24 Nov, 2022
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Latest episode – security expert John Shier explains what the real-life cybercrime stories in the Sophos Threat Report can teach us

News has emerged of a “feature” in Office that has been abused as a zero-day bug to run evil code. Turning off macros doesn’t help!

“Change your code to improve cryptomining”… or we’ll dump 1TB of stolen secrets.

You’d spot this one a mile away… but what about your friends or family?

Latest episode – listen now!

It’s been a long time coming, and we’re not there yet, but at least Microsoft Office will be a bit safer against macro malware…

Free home PCR devices would be technological marvels, and really useful, too. But there aren’t any…