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  • "Pen Testing Data Highlights Gaps in Healthcare Cybersecurity"
    Penetration testing is an important tool for maintaining healthcare cybersecurity and identifying potential security vulnerabilities. Although healthcare is gradually transitioning away from reliance on legacy systems, unpatched and out-of-date software…
  • "EZVIZ Video Cameras Can Be Accessed Remotely"
    Bitdefender researchers discovered a series of vulnerabilities that could be exploited to remotely control EZVIZ networked cameras without authentication to download and decrypt images. The researchers were able to take control the EZVIZ cameras using a…
  • "EFF's 'Cover Your Tracks' Will Detect Your Use of iOS 16's Lockdown Mode"
    Apple's new iOS 16 provides a powerful tool called Lockdown Mode for the company's most vulnerable users. Lockdown Mode restricts attackers' ability to hack into users' phones by disabling commonly exploited features. While this new feature provides a…
  • "Rockstar Confirms Hacker Stole GTA VI Footage"
    Rockstar Games, an American video game publisher, has confirmed that a hacker published authentic, pre-release footage from the development of Grand Theft Auto (GTA) VI, a highly anticipated upcoming game. According to a statement released by the company…
  • "Can Reflections in Eyeglasses Actually Leak Info From Zoom Calls? Here's a Study Into It"
    Researchers at the University of Michigan and Zhejiang University have brought attention to how video conferencing participants wearing glasses inadvertently reveal sensitive on-screen information due to reflections in their eyeglasses. The researchers…
  • "Ransomware Attack Frequency and Amount Demanded Down in H1 2022"
    According to a new report from Coalition, ransomware attack frequency and cost have decreased. From H2 2021 to H1 2022, ransomware payment demands fell from $1.37 million to $896,000. Coalition policyholders paid around 20 percent of the initial amount…
  • "High Severity Vulnerabilities Found in Harbor Open-Source Artifact Registry"
    Oxeye security researchers have discovered a number of new high severity Insecure Director Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-graduated project Harbor, VMware's popular open-source artifact registry.…
  • "Google, Microsoft Can Get Your Passwords via Web Browser's Spellcheck"
    Extended spellcheck features in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge web browsers send form data to Google and Microsoft, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and, in some cases, passwords. While this is a known and intended feature of these…
  • "Brussels Intends to Propose Guidelines For Connected Devices' Cybersecurity"
    The European Commission wants to ensure that commonly connected appliances are less vulnerable to cyberattacks by requiring manufacturers to improve security throughout their entire product lifecycles. The Cyber Resilience Act, which was recently…
  • "Europol and Bitdefender Release Free Decryptor for LockerGoga Ransomware"
    Bitdefender, a Romanian cybersecurity firm, has made a decryptor for the LockerGoga ransomware available in collaboration with Europol, the No More Ransom project, and Zürich law enforcement authorities. LockerGoga, discovered in January 2019, made…
  • "Protecting Privacy – And Safety – In Encrypted Messaging"
    Cornell Tech researchers have created a mechanism for maintaining anonymity in encrypted messaging while also blocking unwanted or abusive messages. The group's paper titled, "Orca: Blocklisting in Sender-Anonymous Messaging," was presented at the 31st…
  • "'Digital Mask' Could Protect Patients' Privacy in Medical Records"
    Using three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction and deep learning algorithms, a team led by scientists from Cambridge and China was able to erase identifiable features from facial images while keeping disease-relevant features required for diagnosis. Facial…