Gmail Hit By A Second Outage Within A Single Day Gmail is suffering its second outage in 24 hours, with users able to access their email but unable to send to other Gmail users or are experiencing unexpected behavior. In BleepingComputer’s tests, when sending an email to a Gmail (gmail.com) address, Read more…
Microsoft To Quarantine Compromised SolarWinds Binaries Tomorrow Microsoft has announced today that Microsoft Defender will begin quarantining compromised SolarWind Orion binaries starting tomorrow morning. Over the weekend, it was revealed that Russian nation-state hackers breached SolarWinds, a network management software developer, and added malicious code to their Orion Platform. The malicious binaries were then Read more…
New Windows Malware May Soon Target Linux, MacOS Devices Newly discovered Windows info-stealing malware linked to an active threat group tracked as AridViper shows signs that it might be used to infect computers running Linux and macOS. The new trojan, dubbed PyMICROPSIA by Unit 42, was discovered while investigating AridViper activity (also tracked as Desert Falcon and APT-C-23), Read more…
Microsoft 365 gets native app support on Apple Silicon Macs Microsoft has started rolling out new Universal versions of Microsoft 365 apps with native support for both Apple Silicon and Intel-based Macs starting today. After the update, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote will be able to take full advantage of the Read more…
Google Outage Caused By Critical System Running Out Of Storage The global Google services outage yesterday was caused by the company’s Identity Management System failing after a bug restricted its storage space. This system failure prevented users from accessing Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Calendar, and other Google services. During the Read more…
Pandemic Year Increases Bug Bounties And Report Submissions Vulnerability submissions have increased over the past 12 months on at least one crowdsourced security platform, with critical issue reports recording a 65% jump. The data comes from the Bugcrowd platform and also reflects growth in payouts as ethical hackers are hunting Read more…
Ransomware Attack Causing Billing Delays For Missouri City The City of Independence, Missouri, suffered a ransomware attack last week that continues to disrupt the city’s services. At the beginning of the month, Independence suffered a ransomware attack that forced them to shut down their IT system as they recovered from the Read more…
Firefox 84 Dramatically Boosts Performance On Apple Silicon Macs Mozilla Firefox 84 was released today with a dramatic performance boost after adding native support on macOS devices with Apple Silicon processors. Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop users can upgrade to Firefox 84 by going to Options -> Help -> About Firefox. The browser will automatically Read more…
Twitter Fined By EU Data Protection Watchdog For GDPR Breach Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined Twitter €450,000 (~$550,000) for failing to notify the DPC of a breach within the 72-hour timeframe imposed by European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and to adequately document it. The GDPR is a user and data Read more…
Critical Golang XML Parser Bugs Can Cause SAML Authentication Bypass This week, Mattermost, in coordination with Golang has disclosed 3 critical vulnerabilities within Go language’s XML parser. If exploited, these vulnerabilities, also impacting multiple Go-based SAML implementations, can lead to a complete bypass of SAML authentication which powers prominent web applications Read more…
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