Security Leftovers
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68k Phishing Victims are Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned, Courtesy of CERT Poland
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How Quantum Computing Will Impact Cybersecurity
While quantum-based attacks are still in the future, organizations must think about how to defend data in transit when encryption no longer works.
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High-Severity Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities Patched in Firefox, Chrome
Mozilla and Google have released stable updates for the Firefox and Chrome browsers to address several memory corruption vulnerabilities.
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Critical Failure in Open Source | Coder Radio 533 [Ed: Microsoft lobbying/aggression in action]
U.S. officials are warning open-source software could be a cyber security threat. Their solution? Money. But do we want them picking the winners and losers of open source?
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When Apps Go Rogue
Interesting story of an Apple Macintosh app that went rogue. Basically, it was a good app until one particular update…when it went bad.
With more official macOS features added in 2021 that enabled the “Night Shift” dark mode, the NightOwl app was left forlorn and forgotten on many older Macs. Few of those supposed tens of thousands of users likely noticed when the app they ran in the background of their older Macs was bought by another company, nor when earlier this year that company silently updated the dark mode app so that it hijacked their machines in order to send their IP data through a server network of affected computers, AKA a botnet...
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Malwarebytes lays off 100 employees ahead of business split | TechCrunch
The cybersecurity giant's CEO confirmed the layoffs ahead of a major corporate restructuring that will see its business split into two.