Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2021

Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation Acer was victim of a REvil ransomware attack, the gang demanded a $50,000,000 ransom. Taiwanese computer giant Acer was victim of the REvil ransomware attack, the gang is demanding the payment of a $50,000,000 ransom, the largest one to date. billion in revenue.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

So a lot of it has to do with just how programmers naturally work which is they're trying to build something that functions, they have a list of things that it needs to do, and they try to write code to meet each of the things on that list. In software security, a broker is something that gathers and reports information.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2020

The company collects a laundry list of data about you, including user name, physical address, email address, phone number, job information, Facebook profile information, computer or phone specs, IP address, and any other information you create or upload. Zoom's encryption is awful. Zoom video meetings use a combination of TCP and UDP.

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