“According to a report from cyber-security firm ClearSky, Iranian hackers have targeted companies “from the IT, Telecommunication, Oil and Gas, Aviation, Government, and Security sectors.””
DNS-over-HTTPS causes more problems than it solves, experts say
“The DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol is not the privacy panacea that many have been advocating in recent months.”
FBI warns about attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA)
“The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has sent last month a security advisory to private industry partners about the rising threat of attacks against organizations and their employees that can bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions.”
Read This And Double Check Your Google Calendar Settings
“Google Calendar powers a lot of regular schedules. The desktop, mobile, and even voice-assisted versions are at the center of daily planning and overall productivity. There is a certain expectation that your schedule belongs to you, that it is private.”
Popular Ad Blockers AdBlock and uBlocker Deemed ‘Fake’
“The team behind AdGuard, a real ad-block extension for browsers, reported in a blog post this week that two popular ad blocking extensions found on the Google Chrome Web Store are, in fact, completely fake, despite being used by millions of users. The two extensions, called AdBlock by AdBlock Inc.”
Firefox Plans Controversial New Encryption Setting For Millions, And Update Starts This Month
“The company assured in its blogpost that “most of our users will benefit from the greater protections of encrypted DNS traffic,” but there was also a recognition at some of the backlash against the new technology.”
Google Confirms Password Replacement For 1.7 Billion Android Users, Starting Now
“Google has announced that it is to start replacing passwords as a method of verifying identity online for Android users.”
U.S. May Outlaw Messaging Encryption Used By WhatsApp, iMessage And Others, Report
“End-to-end encrypted messaging is a major issue for law enforcement—as the world shifts from easy to crack (for governments) cellular SMS messaging to various flavors of IP messaging, such as WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal and Wickr, governments are exploring their options.”
New Security Warning Issued For Google’s 1.5 Billion Gmail And Calendar Users
“Google’s Gmail email service is used by upwards of 1.5 billion people. The Google Calendar app, meanwhile, has been downloaded more than a billion times from the Play Store.”
Patch now! Magento e-commerce sites targeted by SQLi attacks
“Cybercriminals are reportedly exploiting a critical flaw in the Magento e-commerce platform only days after it was made public by the researchers who discovered it. Scoring a 9.”
