October 2021 – Page 7

China’s VPN market now open to foreign investment

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Man gets 7 years in prison for hacking 65K health care employees

Justin Sean Johnson, also known as TheDearthStar and Dearthy Star, was sentenced this week to seen years in prison for the 2014 hack of the health care provider and insurer University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). […]

19 Oct

FBI warns of fake govt sites used to steal financial, personal data

The FBI warned the US public that threat actors actively use fake and spoofed unemployment benefit websites to harvest sensitive financial and personal information from unsuspecting victims. […]

18 Oct

Microsoft: Windows 11 bug may only allow admins to print

Microsoft is working on a fix for a known issue impacting Windows 11 customers and causing a prompt for admin credentials before every attempt to print. […]

18 Oct

Microsoft asks admins to patch PowerShell to fix WDAC bypass

Microsoft has asked system administrators to patch PowerShell 7 against two vulnerabilities allowing attackers to bypass Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) enforcements and gain access to plain text credentials. […]

18 Oct

Microsoft fixes Windows 10 auth issue impacting Remote Desktop

Microsoft has fixed a known Windows 10 issue causing smartcard authentication to fail when trying to connect using Remote Desktop after installing the cumulative updates released during the September 2021 Patch Tuesday. […]

18 Oct

Credit card PINs can be guessed even when covering the ATM pad

Researchers have proven it’s possible to train a special-purpose deep-learning algorithm that can guess 4-digit card PINs 41% of the time, even if the victim is covering the pad with their hands. […]

18 Oct

Sinclair TV stations crippled by weekend ransomware attack

TV stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group broadcast television company went down over the weekend across the US, with multiple sources telling BleepingComputer the downtime was caused by a ransomware attack. […]

16 Oct

Windows 11 build 22000.282 fixes CPU performance issues, taskbar bug

Microsoft released Windows 11 preview build 22000.282 yesterday with fixes for AMD CPU performance issues and a bug that displayed the Windows 10 taskbar. […]

16 Oct

Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

Canon USA is being sued for not allowing owners of certain printers to use the scanner of faxing functions if they run out of ink. […]

Month: October 2021

China’s VPN market now open to foreign investment

Man gets 7 years in prison for hacking 65K health care employees

FBI warns of fake govt sites used to steal financial, personal data

Microsoft: Windows 11 bug may only allow admins to print

Microsoft asks admins to patch PowerShell to fix WDAC bypass

Microsoft fixes Windows 10 auth issue impacting Remote Desktop

Credit card PINs can be guessed even when covering the ATM pad

Sinclair TV stations crippled by weekend ransomware attack

Windows 11 build 22000.282 fixes CPU performance issues, taskbar bug

Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink