Most Read This Week - Security Boulevard https://securityboulevard.com/category/sb/most-read-this-week/ The Home of the Security Bloggers Network Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:57:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://securityboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/android-chrome-256x256-1-32x32.png Most Read This Week - Security Boulevard https://securityboulevard.com/category/sb/most-read-this-week/ 32 32 133346385 China Cyberwar Coming? Versa’s Vice: Volt Typhoon’s Target https://securityboulevard.com/2024/08/china-cyberwar-coming-versas-vice-volt-typhoons-target/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:57:30 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2029126 A Chinese flag flies on a high pole

Xi whiz: Versa Networks criticized for swerving the blame.

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‘Terrorgram’ Telegram Terrorists Trash Transformers — Grid in Peril https://securityboulevard.com/2024/08/telegram-terrorgram-grid-richixbw/ Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:19:11 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2028965 Sign reads, “Danger: High Voltage!”

Should’ve listened to Edison: After the arrest of Pavel Durov—the Telegram CEO—comes news of domestic extremists using the chat app to organize.

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Pig Butchering at Heart of Bank Failure — CEO Gets 24 Years in Jail https://securityboulevard.com/2024/08/shan-hanes-htsb-ceo-pig-butchering-richixbw/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:54:40 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2028729 A pig in a muddy farm field

Oink, oink, FAIL—you’re in jail: Kansas bank chief exec Shan Hanes stole money from investors, a church and others to buy cryptocurrency to feed a scam.

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Patch Tuesday not Done ’til LINUX Won’t Run? https://securityboulevard.com/2024/08/microsoft-linux-duel-boot-fail-richixbw/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:34:47 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2028427 A pair of work boots

Redmond reboot redux: “Something has gone seriously wrong.” You can say that again, Microsoft.

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Don’t Mess With Texas Privacy: AG Sues GM for $18 BILLION https://securityboulevard.com/2024/08/texas-sues-gm-privacy-richixbw/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:41:35 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2027824 DonkeyHotey (cc:by-sa)

KP♡TX PII: “General Motors has engaged in egregious business practices that violated Texans’ pri­vacy … in unthinkable ways,” rants state attorney general Ken Paxton (pictured).

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August Patch Pileup: Microsoft’s Zero-Day Doozy Dump https://securityboulevard.com/2024/08/august-2024-patch-tuesday-richixbw/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:32:13 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2027632 The word “Tuesday” in cutout paper letters on a textured background

See These CVEs: Patch Tuesday—ten zero-days, seven Critical vulns, zero time to waste.

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WTH? DPRK WFH Ransomware Redux: 3rd Person Charged https://securityboulevard.com/2024/08/dprk-it-workers-knoot-richixbw/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:55:00 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2027467 North Korea

North Korean army of remote IT workers enabled by Matthew Isaac Knoot, alleges DoJ.

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Student Devices Wiped — Mobile Guardian Hacked AGAIN https://securityboulevard.com/2024/08/mobile-guardian-hacked-again-richixbw/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:03:54 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2026998 Mobile Guardian CEO Patrick Lawson

Hackers ate my homework: MDM software for schools is breached for second time this year—13,000 devices wiped in Singapore alone.

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TikTok Abuses Kids, say DoJ and FTC https://securityboulevard.com/2024/08/tiktok-sued-doj-ftc-coppa-richixbw/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:19:09 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2026655

For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction.

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Prisoner Swap: Huge Russian Hackers Freed — Seleznev and Klyushin https://securityboulevard.com/2024/08/seleznev-klyushin-prisoner-swap-richixbw/ Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:00:17 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2026469

Pragmatic politics: Anger as Putin gets back two notorious cybercriminals

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