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China Cyberwar Coming? Versa’s Vice: Volt Typhoon’s Target
Richi Jennings | | CenturyLink, china, china espionage, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber attacks, China-nexus cyber espionage, CVE-2024-39717, Lumen, Lumen Technologies, Peoples Republic of China, SB Blogwatch, Versa Director, Versa Neworks, VersaMem, Volt Typhoon
Xi whiz: Versa Networks criticized for swerving the blame ...
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‘Terrorgram’ Telegram Terrorists Trash Transformers — Grid in Peril
Richi Jennings | | Anti-Terrorism, Child Abuse, child exploitation, Child Online Safety, child porn, child pornography, Child protection, Child Safety, child sexual exploitation, childpornography, Counter-Terrorism, counterterrorism, CSAM, Data encryption, E2EE, encryption, end-to-end encryption, extremism, france, ICS, ICS/SCADA systems, Pavel Durov, Privacy, Russia, SB Blogwatch, Telegram, Telegram app, Terrorgram, Terrorism, terrorist, terrorist attack, Terrorist attacks
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
Richi Jennings | | #PigButchering, Crypto, crypto cons, crypto crime, crypto currency, cryptocurrency, Heartland Tri-State Bank, online romance scam, pig butchering, Pig Butchering Scams, romance, romance fraud, romance scam, romance scammers, romance scams, SB Blogwatch, Shan Hanes
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?
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2022-2601, Dual boot, GRUB2 Bootloader Secure Boot Bypass, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2024, Microsoft Windows, Patch Tuesday, SB Blogwatch, SBAT, secure boot, Secure Boot Advanced Targeting, Windows
Redmond reboot redux: “Something has gone seriously wrong.” You can say that again, Microsoft ...
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August Patch Pileup: Microsoft’s Zero-Day Doozy Dump
Richi Jennings | | Adobe patch, august patch tuesday, CVE-2024-21302, CVE-2024-38106, CVE-2024-38107, CVE-2024-38178, CVE-2024-38189, CVE-2024-38193, CVE-2024-38199, CVE-2024-38200, CVE-2024-38202, CVE-2024-38213, Microsoft patch tuesday, Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2024, Patch Tuesday, SB Blogwatch
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
Richi Jennings | | Andrew M., DPRK, Korea, Korean military, Korean ransomware, Matthew Isaac Knoot, North Korea, North Korean Hacking, North Korean Threat Actors, northkorea, Noth Korea, SB Blogwatch
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
Richi Jennings | | Blackmail, cybersecurity education, Cybersecurity in education, DevOps Education, DevSecOps Education, MDM, Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile Guardian, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, singapore
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
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?
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
Richi Jennings | | cyber attacks russia, Putin, Roman Seleznev, Russia, russia hacker, russia-based, Russian hacker, Russian hackers, Russian hacking, SB Blogwatch, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav Klyushin
Pragmatic politics: Anger as Putin gets back two notorious cybercriminals ...
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CrowdStrike Sued? — Delta Dials David Boies
Richi Jennings | | CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike incident;, Delta Airlines, falcon, SB Blogwatch
Is Delta the First of Many? Airline calls in attorneys Boies Schiller Flexner to claw back its cash ...
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