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Disable User
June 08, 2023
Hi and welcome to another Security weekly. Where we laugh, we cry and share the latest and greatest in security and tech news.
In this week's edition:
š° This week in cybersecurity
ā Disable User explains: Social Engineering
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This week in cybersecurity
Cl0p gang tells MOVEit hack victims to contact it before June 14, or elseā¦ - Didnāt write about it, but itās been a rather big story the last weeks. Companies like the BBC and British Airways are affected, so Iām curious what the 14th will bring.
Microsoft reaches $20m settlement with FTC in child privacy violation case - Oh no, somebody fined Microsoft 20 million. Thatās parking ticket money.
And the thing with a parking ticket is always:
Will this make me pissed? Sure.
Will this prevent me from parking in the disabled person spot again?
Of course not.How The FBI Digs Up Deleted WhatsApp Messages - for those of you hiding behind ādisappearing messagesā- feature ā¦ guess again playahs.
Chrome and Edge zero-day: āThis exploit is in the wildā, so check your versions now - the benefit of sharing an engine is stuff like shared extensions, but letās not forget about the biggest downside:
if one has a flaw, the other suffers as well.0mega ransomware gang changes tactics - I always wonder when I see stuff like this. Do ransomware gangs have vision meetings? Off-sites with the management team? Do they get free pizza if they work late?
Outlook.com hit by outages as hacktivists claim DDoS attacks - after my article praising the new Outlook client Iāve been hit with nothing but outages.
IS THIS HOW YOU REPAY MY LOYALTY, SATYA?Zyxel Firewalls Under Attack! Urgent Patching Required - for those of you running Zyxel, donāt wait - update.
Over 60K Adware Apps Posing as Cracked Versions of Popular Apps Target Android Devices - Too bad this is still a major thing.
I love that part of the Microsoft Security Score for Identity in Azure improves your score if you *don't* enforce password rotation, what a sign of the times! Who out there still works somewhere that forces rotation (because "reasons")?
ā Troy Hunt (@troyhunt)
7:19 AM ā¢ Oct 6, 2022
An older tweet, but it still stands. Iām curious:
if you replied āmeā on the above, take this free advice from ya boy
Social engineering
When someone tricks another person into giving away private information by pretending to be someone they're not.
Iām doing a āSocial Engineeringā special, explaining another form of Social Engineering per week.
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