Microsoft forgot to renew the certificate for its Windows Insider subdomain over the weekend, causing an outage and disruption for those trying to use the platform. Users who attempted to visit the Windows Insider portal were met with a warning about how their connection wasn’t private. Despite the site only being down for a few hours, this typifies why large enterprises need to prioritise machine identity management, as without it we’ll continue to see outages impact users.
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It has been reported that Apple has announced plans to move towards a passwordless future. At Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, the company announced it will launch passwordless logins across Macs, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs in its first major real-world shift to password elimination.
In The Human Factor Report 2022, security vendor Proofpoint found that SMS phishing (smishing) attacks more than doubled year-on-year in 2021. The report is based on their analysis of over 2.6 billion email messages, 49 billion URLs, 1.9 billion attachments, 28 million cloud accounts and 1.7 billion mobile messages. The study details most common attack surfaces and methods including categories of risk, vulnerabilities, attacks, Russian Aligned APT’s, and Privilege as a vector. Key Findings: 50% – Managers and executives make up only 10% of users, but almost 50% of the most severe attack risk100k – Attackers attempt to initiate more than 100,000 telephone-oriented…
Big moves have been made for Government security today, with the MoD announcing the acquisition of its first quantum computer- storming ahead in the quantum arms race. With the development of quantum computers, the UK government will need to start shifting all its Critical National Infrastructure encryption to one based on quantum-safe algorithms. This is a mammoth problem – is the Government ready?
Babble enlists the help of a Twitter poet to encourage the technology sector to cut the jargon The technology sector’s widespread use of unnecessary jargon and technobabble is stopping people joining the sector and needs to be eliminated. That’s according to Babble, which today releases new research1 revealing how companies delay or abandon technology investments when confronted with impenetrable jargon. Babble interviewed 1,000 UK jobseekers as well as 500 bosses within small and mid-sized British businesses and found: · Technology was the number one ranked sector when it comes to unnecessary use of jargon (70%), followed by finance (67%) and…
An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former lawmaker A$715,000 ($515,000), saying its refusal to remove a YouTuber’s “relentless, racist, vilificatory, abusive and defamatory” videos drove him out of politics. More on the story here: Google ordered to pay Australian politician over defamatory YouTube videos
Following the news that: Italian city of Palermo shuts down all systems to fend off cyberattack Italian city of Palermo shuts down all systems to fend off cyberattack (bleepingcomputer.com)
New statistics reveal that cybercriminals are now spending longer inside businesses’ internal networks after their initial breach, having a 36% increase in attacker dwell time compared to 2021.
Shields Health Care Group has suffered a data breach affecting two million patients. Although the organization claims that no information accessed in the breach has been “misused or disseminated,” we know that consequences still stand no matter the outcome, especially when it comes to the healthcare field and its vulnerable patients. Shields Health Care Group’s business type relies on a handful of partnerships with hospitals and medical centers, so these consequences could affect over 50 facilities and their patients.