A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
Microsoft: SolarWinds Attack Took More Than 1,000 Engineers to Create
You may have missed this extremely interesting bit of data that ZDNet just published. “Microsoft reckons that the huge attack on security vendors and more took the combined power of at least 1,000 engineers to create.
“The months-long hacking campaign that affected US government agencies and cybersecurity vendors ...
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Phishing Email Alerts
Catch of the Day: PPC Fraud Phish
Chef’s Special: Domain Name Registration Scam Phish
Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from clients, or reliable sources on the Internet.
So many good phish this week. The nets have been empty with slim pickings for a while. Not this week, nets are full of phish. ...
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The world has evolved so much in the past few years. These changes are even more apparent in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, with people and businesses forced to adapt and move everything online, from office meetings to grocery shopping.
Need to buy a pair of jeans? Ran out of groceries for the week? Craving your favorite food? All of these ...
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First – some good news from the Smithsonian. World’s Second-Oldest Person Recovers From Covid-19 in Time for 117th Birthday
Working from home?
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
Much of this content is from Bruce Schneier
Cell Phone Location Privacy
We all know that our cell phones constantly give our location away to our mobile network operators; that’s how they work. A group of researchers has figured out a way to fix that. “Pretty Good Phone Privacy” (PGPP) protects both user identity ...
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Phishing Email Alerts
Catch of the Day: Morse Code Attack
Chef’s Special: IONOS Phish
Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from clients, or reliable sources on the Internet.
I would be delighted to accept suspicious phishing examples from you. Please forward your email to phish@wyzguys.com.
My intention is to provide a warning, examples ...
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By Hristina Nikolovska
With another core update scheduled for May this year, webmasters are scrambling to get their websites ready. They’re working furiously to ensure that their sites measure up in terms of the core web vitals (CWV) that Google is targeting this year.
Google’s new CWV are geared toward improving the customer ...
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Some additional cybersecurity issues to worry about from my Pinterest Feed.
Where the heck did he find a pay phone?
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars
The technically complex landing marks the fifth successful U.S. bid to reach the Martian surface
Its Not Just SolarWinds: France Reveals Three-Year Long Supply Chain Attack
News of the SolarWinds data breach, where its software management updates were hacked, rocked the cyber world. And now comes news ...
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