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Malicious IIS extensions quietly open persistent backdoors into servers
Attackers are increasingly leveraging Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions as covert backdoors into servers, which hide deep in target environments and provide a durable persistence mechanism for attackers. While prior research has been published on specific...
Microsoft wins five-year digital transformation deal with Australia’s largest telco
Microsoft has secured a five-year partnership with Telstra, Australia’s largest telco, to accelerate the country’s digital transformation. The agreement is one of the largest partnerships Microsoft has established with a telecommunications provider globally, the...
The rise and continuing popularity of LinkedIn-themed phishing
Phishing emails impersonating LinkedIn continue to make the bulk of all brand phishing attempts; according to Check Point, 45% of all email phishing attempts in Q2 2022 imitated the style of communication of the professional social media platform, with the goal of...
Apple’s latest iOS, watchOS, and macOS updates are more urgent than they seem
Apple last week released OS updates for all of its devices, likely the final ones to appear before the new versions land in the fall. On the surface, they seem quite minor, with very few new features to speak of, but that doesn’t mean you should drag your feet on...
Microsoft’s Project AirSim is pushing drone simulation software to new heights
How do you teach an autonomous drone to fly itself? Practice, practice, practice. Now Microsoft is offering a way to put a drone’s control software through its paces millions of times before the first takeoff. The cloud-based simulation platform, Project AirSim, is...
Hot to use message effects with iMessage on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
Make your messages even more expressive with Memoji sticker effects, bubble effects, full-screen animations, camera effects and more. You'll need iMessage – an Apple feature – to send message effects. Find out the difference between iMessage and SMS/MMS texts....
The Problems With Patching
Applying patches may be a basic security principle, but that doesn't mean it's always easy to do in practice. The ways that we patch our organisations' IT may change over time, but patching - in general - has always been good for security. This blog explains why the...
Researchers defeat facial recognition systems with universal face mask
Can attackers create a face mask that would defeat modern facial recognition (FR) systems? A group of researchers from from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University have proven that it can be done. “We validated our adversarial mask’s effectiveness...
PayPal-themed phishing kit allows complete identity theft
Sometimes phishers are just after your username and password, but other times they are after every scrap of sensitive information they can extract from you. To do that, they use tools like the phishing kit recently analyzed by Akamai researchers. By misusing the...
Hackers have access to bank details, signatures, addresses and national insurance numbers, Gloucester councillor reveals
People in Gloucester have had their signatures, addresses, national insurance numbers, bank details and driving licences accessed by hackers, a councillor has revealed. Many local people's lives were thrown into disarray in December when council services were...