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Group Behind SolarWinds Hack Bypassed MFA to Access Emails at US Think Tank
Using indicators of compromise (IoCs) made available by FireEye, threat intelligence and incident response firm Volexity determined that the threat group behind the SolarWinds hack targeted a U.S. think tank earlier this year, and it used a clever method to bypass...
Ad-injecting malware hijacks Chrome, Edge, Firefox
When searching for things online, has a greater number of ads than usual been popping up at the top of your search results? If it has, and you’re using Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Yandex Browser, or Mozilla Firefox, you might have fallen prey to the ad-injecting...
Massive Google Outage Takes Millions Offline
An ongoing issue with Google's servers has brought down many of the company's cloud services, leaving millions of users without access to their data. Multiple services including YouTube, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs and Google Photos are all currently affected....
Phishers bypass Microsoft 365 security controls by spoofing Microsoft.com
A domain spoofing email phishing campaign that very convincingly impersonates Microsoft and successfully tricks legacy secure email gateways has recently been spotted by Ironscales. It also led them to discover that Microsoft servers are not currently enforcing the...
Google Authenticator for iOS gets its most important update yet
Google Authenticator is an important app on any iPhone, as you can't log into many important accounts without it. And yet, until now, it had a glaring omission — it was impossible to transfer your accounts to a new iPhone. With the latest version of the app for iOS...
Revealed: Apple’s next M-series chips aim to shake the Microsoft Windows-Intel alliance
Apple's chip designers are preparing a new set of processors for 2021 that potentially create a significant threat to the Wintel, or Windows-Intel, alliance that's dominated personal computers since the 1980s. Bloomberg's Apple watchers report that Apple chip...
Apple announces AirPods Max, over-the-ear headphones that launch Dec. 15
After several months of rumours and speculation, Apple has announced the AirPods Max, the first over-the-ear headphones from the company not under the Beats by Dre brand. There's an overall retro feel to the AirPods Max, giving them a unique look. Up until this point,...
Calls on Microsoft Teams are finally getting a major upgrade
Making conference calls on the go could soon be easier than ever thanks to a major upgrade to Microsoft Teams. According to a Microsoft blog post, the firm has streamlined the calling experience in Teams, bringing call history, voicemail, contacts and the dial pad...
Quarter of Firms Suffered 7+ Serious Cyber-Attacks in 2020
Nearly a quarter (23%) of global organizations suffered seven or more attacks that infiltrated their networks over the past year, and a majority believe it will happen in the coming 12 months, according to Trend Micro. The security giant commissioned the Ponemon...
HMRC phishing scam abuses mail service to bypass spam filters
Threat actors are exploiting legitimate the SendGrid mailing service to spoof HMRC phishing emails that bypass spam filters. The known issue has been repeatedly exploited by scammers to evade detection from email security products, yet no concrete solution has been...