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Garmin Suffers Massive WastedLocker Ransomware Attack

July 27, 2020 By Marc Laliberte

Garmin

Last Thursday, the GPS and smartwatch firm Garmin suffered what was allegedly a massive, system-wide ransomware attack, forcing them to take down all of their services ranging from their apps to their support call centers. While Garmin has been tight-lipped as to the cause of the outage, multiple publications have reported that the company was targeted by WastedLocker, a … [Read more...]

Critical Microsoft DNS Server Vulnerability – SIGRRed

July 14, 2020 By Marc Laliberte

Broken lock

If you already had plans to test and roll out the various Microsoft Windows and Server updates that came out today as a part of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, you probably want to move a bit quicker. Among the various bug fixes are a series of patches for a critical “wormable” vulnerability in Windows DNS Server, affecting all Windows Server versions dating back to Server 2003 … [Read more...]

US Senators Introduce Bill to Backdoor Encryption

June 24, 2020 By Marc Laliberte

Dome of the U.S. Capitol by night

Three Republican Senators today introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, in their latest attack on the security and privacy of everyday citizens. The press release for the bill describes it as a way to “bolster national security interests” by “ending the use of ‘warrant-proof’ encrypted technology by terrorists and other bad actors to conceal illicit behavior.” At a … [Read more...]

NCSC and CISA Alert on APTs Targeting Healthcare

May 5, 2020 By Marc Laliberte

NCSC Advisory

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a joint advisory today(pdf), highlighting ongoing activity by Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups against healthcare and essential services. The six-page advisory states that unnamed hacking groups are targeting organizations “in order to collect bulk … [Read more...]

Is Clearview AI Scraping of Google and Facebook Karma?

February 7, 2020 By Trevor Collins

Business Intelligence Abstract

As reported by Techspot, in an ironic twist Google and Facebook looked into stopping Clearview AI, a startup that scrapes the Internet for faces, from scraping their websites. Clearview AI claims to use these faces to create a tool for law enforcement agencies to identify perpetrators and victims of crimes. Goggle sent a cease and desist but Facebook held back, possibly due to … [Read more...]

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