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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from Bruce Schneier.

Why We Can’t Give the Cops Encryption Back Doors

Bruce Schneier explains once again why encryption back doors for cops means back doors for crooks too. “The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century. On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists ...

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cybersecurity, encryption, Identity Theft, Weekend Update

Evil Clippy

North Koreans At It Again with ELECTRICFISH

US-CERT and CISA recently released a warning about a new tunneling malware application that the North Korean cyber operations group is using to move information from one computer to another, in order to exfiltrate that data. You can read about it at Malware Analysis Report (AR19-129A) MAR-10135536-21 – North Korean Tunneling Tool: ELECTRICFISH

“This report provides analysis of one malicious 32-bit Windows executable file. The malware implements a custom protocol that allows traffic to be tunneled between ...

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MAY

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cybersecurity

cyberwar

Does Microsoft’s Office365 Cloud Service Have Security Flaws?

Have you recently migrated to Microsoft Office 365 for your company email services? US-CERT and CISA recently released Analysis Report (AR19-133A) Microsoft Office 365 Security Observations that described several security flaws or weaknesses inherent in the default deployment of O365.

Here are the findings of that report. The good news is that these are shortcomings with the default, out-of-box experience. These issues can be corrected through configuration. ...

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MAY

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cybersecurity, email, Software vulnerability

cloud services, Microsoft, Office365

Guest Post – The Definitive Guide To VPNs – Part 4

Last week we took a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast. This article concludes the series.

VPN and Torrenting

Torrents are just the files that contain the information related to other files and folders that are distributed across the computers. For example, if you want to download a movie using torrent, then ...

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MAY

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, encryption

VPN