December 2020 – Page 6 – We Fix PC

Google explains the cause of the recent YouTube, Gmail outage

Google says that the global authentication system outage which affected most consumer-facing series on Monday was caused by a bug in the automated quota management system impacting the Google User ID Service. […]

The SolarWinds cyberattack: The hack, the victims, and what we know

Since the SolarWinds supply chain attack was disclosed last Sunday, there has been a whirlwind of news, technical details, and analysis released about the hack. Because the amount of information that was released in such a short time is definitely overwhelming, we have published this as a roundup of this week’s SolarWinds news. […]

The Week in Ransomware – December 18th 2020 – Targeting Israel

The SolarWinds supply chain attack has dominated this week’s cybersecurity news, but there was still plenty of ransomware news this week. […]

Stealthy Magecart malware mistakenly leaks list of hacked stores

A list of dozens of online stores hacked by a web skimming group was inadvertently leaked by a dropper used to deploy a stealthy remote access trojan (RAT) on compromised e-commerce sites. […]

Europol launches new decryption platform for law enforcement

Europol and the European Commission have launched a new decryption platform that will help boost Europol’s ability to gain access to information stored in encrypted media collected during criminal investigations. […]

Windows 10 updates cause CorsairVBusDriver BSOD crash loop

Microsoft’s December 2020 Windows 10 updates are conflicting with the Corsair Utility Engine software and causing the operating system to go into a BSOD crash loop. […]

NSA warns of hackers forging cloud authentication information

An advisory from the U.S. National Security Agency is providing Microsoft Azure administrators guidance to detect and protect against threat actors looking to access resources in the cloud by forging authentication information. […]

Google Chrome disables insecure form warnings after complaints

Google has disabled a feature that displays a warning when submitting insecure forms after receiving many complaints from users and website administrators. […]

Microsoft identifies 40+ victims of SolarWinds hack, 80% from US

Microsoft said that over 40 of its customers had their networks infiltrated by hackers following the SolarWinds supply chain attack after they installed backdoored versions of the Orion IT monitoring platform. […]

Microsoft confirms breach in SolarWinds hack, denies infecting others

Microsoft has confirmed that they were hacked in the recent SolarWinds attacks but denied that their software was compromised in a supply-chain attack to infect customers. […]