Apple now requires all apps to make it easy for users to delete their accounts

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All third-party iOS, iPadOS, and macOS apps that allow users to create an account should also provide a method for terminating their accounts from within the apps beginning next year, Apple said on Wednesday. “This requirement applies to all app …

Twitch Suffers Massive 125GB Data and Source Code Leak Due to Server Misconfiguration

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Interactive livestreaming platform Twitch acknowledged a “breach” after an anonymous poster on the 4chan messaging board leaked its source code, an unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios, details of creator payouts, proprietary software development kits, and other internal tools. The Amazon-owned …

Cyber Security WEBINAR — How to Ace Your InfoSec Board Deck

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Communication is a vital skill for any leader at an organization, regardless of seniority. For security leaders, this goes double. Communicating clearly works on multiple levels. On the one hand, security leaders and CISOs must be able to communicate strategies …

Iranian Hackers Abuse Dropbox in Cyberattacks Against Aerospace and Telecom Firms

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Details have emerged about a new cyber espionage campaign directed against the aerospace and telecommunications industries, primarily in the Middle East, with the goal of stealing sensitive information about critical assets, organizations’ infrastructure, and technology while remaining in the dark …

Google to turn on 2-factor authentication by default for 150 million users

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Google has announced plans to automatically enroll about 150 million users into its two-factor authentication scheme by the end of the year as part of its ongoing efforts to prevent unauthorized access to accounts and improve security. In addition, the …

Multiple Critical Flaws Discovered in Honeywell Experion PKS and ACE Controllers

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released an advisory regarding multiple security vulnerabilities affecting all versions of Honeywell Experion Process Knowledge System C200, C200E, C300, and ACE controllers that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and …

Researchers Discover UEFI Bootkit Targeting Windows Computers Since 2012

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Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday revealed details of a previously undocumented UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit that has been put to use by threat actors to backdoor Windows systems as early as 2012 by modifying a legitimate Windows Boot Manager binary to …

New Study Links Seemingly Disparate Malware Attacks to Chinese Hackers

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Chinese cyber espionage group APT41 has been linked to seemingly disparate malware campaigns, according to fresh research that has mapped together additional parts of the group’s network infrastructure to hit upon a state-sponsored campaign that takes advantage of COVID-themed phishing …

Apache Warns of Zero-Day Exploit in the Wild — Patch Your Web Servers Now!

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Apache has issued patches to address two security vulnerabilities, including a path traversal and file disclosure flaw in its HTTP server that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. “A flaw was found in a change made to …

Ransomware Hackers Who Attacked Over 100 Companies Arrested in Ukraine

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Law enforcement agencies have announced the arrest of two “prolific ransomware operators” in Ukraine who allegedly conducted a string of targeted attacks against large industrial entities in Europe and North America since at least April 2020, marking the latest step …