Admin of DDoS Service Behind 200,000 Attacks Faces 35yrs In Prison At the end of a nine-day trial, a jury in California this week found guilty the administrator of two distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations. 32-year old Matthew Gatrel of St. Charles, Illinois, ran two websites that allowed paying users to Read more…
Mozilla Tests Microsoft Bing As The Default Firefox Search Engine Mozilla is running a study to test users’ responses to changing the default Firefox search engine to Microsoft Bing. Like all browsers, Mozilla Firefox automatically configures a browser to a default search engine for performing searches via the address bar. Read more…
Billions More Android Devices Will Reset Risky App Permissions Google announced today that support for a recently released Android privacy protection feature would be backported to billions of devices running older Android versions later this year. The permission auto-reset feature, first introduced with Android 11, is designed to protect users’ Read more…
OMIGOD: Microsoft Azure VMs Exploited To Drop Mirai, Miners Threat actors started actively exploiting the critical Azure OMIGOD vulnerabilities two days after Microsoft disclosed them during this month’s Patch Tuesday. The four security flaws (allowing privilege escalation and remote code execution) were found in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) software agent silently Read more…
Microsoft Asks Azure Linux Admins to Manually Patch OMIGOD Bugs Microsoft has issued additional guidance on securing Azure Linux machines impacted by recently addressed critical OMIGOD vulnerabilities. The four security flaws (allowing remote code execution and privilege escalation) were found in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) software agent silently installed Read more…
How To Fix Printers Asking For Admins Creds After PrintNightmare Patch Some printers will request administrator credentials every time users try to print in Windows Point and Print environments due to a known issue caused by KB5005033 or later security updates addressing the PrintNightmare vulnerability. This happens because, after installing these PrintNightmare patches, only administrators are allowed to Read more…
US Govt Sites Showing Porn, Viagra Ads Share A Common Software Vendor Multiple U.S. government sites using .gov and .mil domains have been seen hosting porn and spam content, such as Viagra ads, in the last year. A security researcher noticed all of these sites share a common software vendor. United States of Read more…
Microsoft Rolls Out Office LTSC 2021 for Windows and Mac Microsoft today started rolling out Office LTSC (Long Term Servicing Channel) for Windows and macOS, the non-subscription Office version for commercial and government customers. Office LTSC 2021 is specifically designed for organizations running regulated devices where feature updates can’t be installed for Read more…
FBI and CISA Warn of State Hackers Exploiting Critical Zoho Bug The FBI, CISA, and the Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) today warned that state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) groups are actively exploiting a critical flaw in a Zoho single sign-on and password management solution since early August 2021. Zoho’s Read more…
New Malware Uses Windows Subsystem For Linux For Stealthy Attacks Security researchers have discovered malicious Linux binaries created for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), indicating that hackers are trying out new methods to compromise Windows machines. The finding underlines that threat actors are exploring new methods of attack and Read more…
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