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French electronics manufacturer Lacroix closed three factories as a result of a cyberattack they “intercepted” over the weekend, the company has announced on Monday. Lacroix designs and produces electronic equipment for the automotive, home… Continue reading Lacroix manufacturing facilities shut down following cyberattack
Meta has unveiled Chat Lock within WhatsApp, a feature that allows users to keep sensitive and intimate conversations safe from prying eyes. WhatsApp Chat Lock (Source: WhatsApp) Enabling Chat Lock By tapping on a one-to-one or group conversation, user… Continue reading WhatsApp allows users to lock sensitive chats
Manufacturing businesses, healthcare organizations, and tech companies in English-speaking countries are the most targeted by phishers leveraging a relatively new phishing-as-a-service (PaaS) tool called Greatness, created to phish Microsoft 365 users…. Continue reading Greatness phishing-as-a-service threatens Microsoft 365 users
Google has announced new tools, features and updates to improve users’ online safety, help them evaluate content found online, and alert them if their Gmail identity appears on the dark web. New tools and options for users A new tool called About… Continue reading Google notifies users about dark web exposure
GitHub is making push protection – a security feature designed to automatically prevent the leaking of secrets to repositories – free for owners of all public repositories. Previously, the feature was available only for private repositories… Continue reading Never leak secrets to your GitHub repositories again
Microsoft has enabled number matching for Microsoft Authenticator push notifications to improve user sign-in security. Authenticator MFA number matching in action (Source: Microsoft) “If the user has a different default authentication method, the… Continue reading Microsoft Authenticator push notifications get number matching
DEF CON’s AI Village will host the first public assessment of large language models (LLMs) at the 31st edition of the hacker convention this August, aimed at finding bugs in and uncovering the potential for misuse of AI models. The possibilities … Continue reading Finding bugs in AI models at DEF CON 31
The Western Digital online store is offline as a result of the “network security incident” it suffered in March 2023. Users have been notified On May 5, 2023, the company emailed its customers to say that an unauthorized party obtained a co… Continue reading Western Digital store offline due to March breach
Cisco has revealed the existence of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-20126) in the web-based management interface of Cisco SPA112 2-Port Phone Adapters. The adapters are widely used to integrate analog phones into VoIP networks without the need for a… Continue reading Critical RCE vulnerability in Cisco phone adapters, no update available (CVE-2023-20126)
The City of Dallas, Texas, has suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in disruption of several of its services. What do we know so far? “Wednesday morning, the City’s security monitoring tools notified our Security Operations Center (SOC) tha… Continue reading City of Dallas hit by ransomware