Microsoft has raised alarm bells over a new #Cyberattack that's actively targeting Windows users through malicious Office documents. ⚠
Casey Ellis, CTO of Bugcrowd, was featured in @TechRepublic sharing insights into this #SecurityBreach below. 👇
https://t.co/9kNZVrDbcI
90+ policy and rights groups around the world wrote @Tim_Cook today to warn @Apple that releasing its new, universally-condemned #spyPhone update "will have laid the foundation for censorship, surveillance and persecution on a global basis."
Source:
https://t.co/DeF5cZPowB
Journalists should press HARD on the #spyPhone scandal. It is indefensible for @Apple, which positions itself as a pro-privacy company, to push a harshly criticized surveillance paradigm into one billion phones despite condemnations by both security experts and rights groups.
Today in the news:
Americans beaten by the Taliban just outside the airport, infants tossed over razor wire by desperate parents, and press summaries leading with the image of the President's turned back as he escapes unanswered questions.
Hard times.
https://t.co/PWzD43Wi3O
Snowden commenting on Facebook's latest Metaverse plans & privacy concerns.
Something like @BigscreenVR has peer-to-peer privacy as an underlying tech architecture, but I agree with @snowden that we should be really skeptical of Facebook's economic DNA of surveillance capitalism.
In light of the deeply troubling Facebook VR thing this week, this talk struck me as extremely far-sighted and valuable—well worth watching.
I found the thing fascinating, but for those looking for the Facebook-specific part, it begins just after 30 minutes in.
Enormous: official confirmation of the allegations regarding Israeli hacking-for-hire company NSO Group's involvement in targeted attacks on EU journalists.
If they will do it in France, they will do it anywhere. Shut them down—ban the exploit trade.
https://t.co/gw2M9Je1nf
The flaw in #Arcadyan is present in routers offered by at least 13 ISPs globally. Over 10,000 routers could be affected by the bypass authentication #vulnerability. Learn more: https://t.co/GzCB5fIQLF #TenableResearch
If we don’t do anything to stop the sale of this technology, it’s not just going to be 50,000 targets: It’s going to be 50 million targets, and it’s going to happen much more quickly than any of us expect.
https://t.co/9ahiR24pqC
Hungary gave the most incriminating response I've ever seen to a request for comment on the #Pegasus surveillance scandal. I mean, whenever I'm "not aware" of whether I did something or not, I demand to know if foreign spies tipped you off about it.
LINK: https://t.co/ZBXZvXUQ32
#Security readings: Kaseya supply chain attack delivers mass ransomware event to US companies | by Kevin Beaumont | Jul, 2021 | DoublePulsar https://t.co/cNXXuyIGN5, see more https://t.co/uzq4KlVuH5