April 2021 – Page 6

Eversource Energy data breach caused by unsecured cloud storage

Eversource, the largest power supplier in New England, has suffered a data breach after customers’ personal information was exposed on an unsecured cloud server. […]

20 Apr

Microsoft partially fixes Windows 7, Server 2008 vulnerability

Microsoft has silently issued a partial fix for a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting all Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 devices. […]

20 Apr

Pulse Secure VPN zero-day used to hack defense firms, govt orgs

Pulse Secure has shared mitigation measures for a zero-day authentication bypass vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) SSL VPN appliance actively exploited in attacks against worldwide organizations and focused on US Defense Industrial base (DIB) networks. […]

19 Apr

Google Alerts continues to be a hotbed of scams and malware

Google Alerts continues to be a hotbed of scams and malware that threat actors are increasingly abusing to promote malicious websites. […]

19 Apr

Windows 10’s multitasking feature is getting downgraded

In 2018, Microsoft introduced a multitasking feature called “Windows Timeline” that lets you see a timeline of activities that you performed in Windows 10 including the webpages you visited, documents you created/opened, photos you added, and more. […]

19 Apr

Microsoft disables Google’s FLoC tracking in Microsoft Edge, for now

Microsoft has disabled Google’s controversial FLoC browser-based tracking feature in their Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. […]

19 Apr

Rogers is down: Canadian users report voice and data outages

Rogers is currently affected by a nationwide outage in Canada that prevents customers from accessing wireless voice and data services. […]

18 Apr

Windows 10 feature update: Here’s what to expect in the next release

With Windows 10 Sun Valley update, we’re expecting new features for Start Menu, Taskbar, Action Center (notification center), File Explorer, and more. […]

18 Apr

WordPress to automatically disable Google FLoC on websites

WordPress announced today that they plan on treating Google’s new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and plans to block it by default on WordPress sites. […]

18 Apr

Discord Nitro gift codes now demanded as ransomware payments

In a novel approach to ransom demands, a new ransomware calling itself ‘NitroRansomware’ encrypts victim’s files and then demands a Discord Nitro gift code to decrypt files. […]

Month: April 2021

Eversource Energy data breach caused by unsecured cloud storage

Microsoft partially fixes Windows 7, Server 2008 vulnerability

Pulse Secure VPN zero-day used to hack defense firms, govt orgs

Google Alerts continues to be a hotbed of scams and malware

Windows 10’s multitasking feature is getting downgraded

Microsoft disables Google’s FLoC tracking in Microsoft Edge, for now

Rogers is down: Canadian users report voice and data outages

Windows 10 feature update: Here’s what to expect in the next release

WordPress to automatically disable Google FLoC on websites

Discord Nitro gift codes now demanded as ransomware payments