Tag: Surprise
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Surprise! Email from personal. information.reveal@gmail.com is not going to contain good news
Karakurt, a particularly nasty extortion gang that uses “extensive harassment” to pressure victims into handing over millions of dollars in …
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Surprise! Staff don’t like receiving phishing tests from their firms that pose as salary increases
UK law firm Knights certainly has an interesting way of keeping its staff happy. After disappointing its staff in a recent round of pay …
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Surprise! Elon Musk’s encrypted Twitter DMs feature will cost you dear
Elon Musk may have fired many of the staff in Twitter’s Trust & Safety division after purchasing the company in October 2022, but for …
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Upgraded to log4j 2.16? Surprise, there’s a 2.17 fixing DoS
Yesterday, BleepingComputer summed up all the log4j and logback CVEs known thus far. Ever since the critical log4j zero-day saga started …
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Adobe’s Surprise Security Bulletin Dominated by Critical Patches
Adobe has dropped a mammoth out-of-band security update this week, addressing 92 vulnerabilities across 14 products. The majority of the …
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Verizon DBIR 2021: “Winners” No Surprise, But All-round Vigilance Essential
Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is launched today and as always provides valuable insight into the cybersecurity …
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Surprise, surprise, consumers don’t like passwords
There will doubtless be a lot of comment surrounding today’s World Password Day (watch this space) but to kick off we’ll start with a new …
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Surprise! Voting app maker roasted by computer boffins for poor security now begs US courts to limit flaw finding
Voatz, the maker of a blockchain-based mobile election voting app pilloried for poor security earlier this year, has urged the US Supreme …
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Surprise! Even Google’s engineers don’t understand its privacy controls
It’s an empty feeling. You discover that something you’ve always suspected to be true — even when denied by a tech company — turns out to …
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Walmart Announces Surprise TikTok Bid
The saga over TikTok’s forced sale to a US company took another turn late this week after it emerged that Walmart is joining …
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The California Consumer Privacy Act’s Hidden Surprise Has Big Legal Consequences
In 2018, when businesses were preparing for the European Union’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), California quietly and quickly …
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UK Ministry of Justice: Surprise! We tested out biometric tech in prisons and ‘visitors’ with drugs up their bums ran away
The UK Ministry of Justice is mooting a rollout of biometric technology in prisons to cut down on visitors bringing in contraband, …
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