Collaborate Disseminate
Seemingly overnight, a new social network — Clubhouse — is popping up everywhere. On January 31, Elon Musk tweeted that he would be on Clubhouse. On February 10, The New York Times reported that Facebook is already looking to build a Clubhouse compet… Continue reading Clubhouse Security and Privacy | Avast
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced the Safe Connections Act last week, a bill that, if passed into law, would help victims of domestic abuse by giving them a free and covert way of extricating themselves from shared phone plans and moving o… Continue reading Safe Connections Act Aims to Help Domestic Abuse Victims | Avast
Public sector agencies are magnets for ransomware actors, due to the sensitive data they hold and the strong pressure they face to restore services following an attack.
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In mid-January, Amazon, Apple and Google ended their commercial relationships with the social media app “Parler”, citing inadequate moderation policies. Over the course of two days, Parler was removed from the App Store, the Google Play Store and Amazo… Continue reading Parler And Deplatformed Apps | Avast
With over a billion monthly users, Instagram is among the most popular social networks worldwide. People of all ages flock to the platform, many of them teenagers. In order to guide its teen users to the most balanced, positive experience they can have… Continue reading Instagram Releases Wellbeing Toolkit for Teens | Avast
Every week, the Morphisec team works hard to bring you the top stories from around the security media-sphere to make your job and securing your critical infrastructure easier.
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Twitter has launched a pilot program called Birdwatch, a “community-based approach” to identifying misleading information in tweets. ZDNet reports that users will be able to write notes to provide context for tweets. The notes then get rated by partici… Continue reading Twitter Launches Birdwatch to Address Misinformation | Avast
Today, law enforcement agencies from around the world successfully wrested control of the Emotet botnet away from its operators. They also took new unprecedented steps to help possible Emotet victims. These steps hopefully bring to a close the story of… Continue reading Emotet Botnet Takedown | Avast
In today’s weekly edition of Security News in Review, the Morphisec team is bringing you stories about how a cyberattack forced a Belgian hospital to redirect patients, the discovery of yet another malware strain used in the SolarWinds attack, and… Continue reading Security News in Review: Belgian Hospital Forced to Redirect Patients; Ransomware Accounts for 81% of Financially Motivated Attacks
Increasingly, law enforcement agencies and lawmakers are asking smartphone developers like Apple and Google to create backdoors into the encryptions that protect user data. But even without them, investigators can access your data.
The post How Law Enf… Continue reading How Law Enforcement Accesses Encrypted Data | Avast