Sorry to everyone who hopes December is stable on cybersecurity. Over the weekend, a risk in the logging process of Apache’s Log4j showed large internet sites for easy theft. There’s not much you can do to protect yourself here, as this article focuses on the server, but a complete collapse can affect many of the tasks you use on a daily basis. Worse still, conspirators have already devised ways to exploit their victims, and they are desperately looking for potential victims. Thanks!
This week has been another year SolarWinds hack reminder, or the first public signs. We looked at how progress has been made to prevent this kind of attack in the future, with all that remains. The good news is that the campaign acted as a wake-up call that encouraged real commitment from government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Bad news? There are no plans, and the options available will take a long time to implement.
In the good news department, Microsoft this week reported seized territories used by the Chinese terrorist group, most recently on industry results that have resulted in the removal of more than 10,000 pages. It is part of Microsoft’s strategy to confuse these groups through legal action, receiving courts that allow it to close areas used on control and control servers.
Russia has taken action to achieve this blocking anonymous browser Tor this week, I urge Internet service providers in the country to stop accessing the Tor page and disrupt other access points. It is the most recent on the Kremlin’s recent list to separate its internet from the rest of the world.
And if you are a Verizon customer, you may be predestined to track gnarly data even if you have previously logged out. Amazing! Here’s how to do it turn off the real time this time.
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Since his arrest in April 2019, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has resisted US attempts to send him abroad. face hack and Espionage Act cases. Where he was before won the lower court’s decision to refuse to extradite him to the US on the grounds that it could affect his mental health, the British Supreme Court on Friday overturned the order, and put Assange back on track. Assange could still appeal, but media rights activists opposed the ruling, arguing that the charges should not have been brought to the fore and expressed skepticism about the Ministry of Justice’s assertion that Assange would suffer at the hands of US forces.
The Brazilian government has delayed updates on the epidemic for travelers entering the country after robbing the health ministry on Friday morning. The commission said in a statement that a number of its activities had been removed from the Internet by developers, including digital vaccine providers and the immunization program in the country. The statement that the attack “has disrupted his operations for some time” and does not exist. The Lapsus $ Group, a revolutionary militia group, bragged about the attack on Friday, boasting that it had stolen and removed about 50 terabytes of the health ministry. “Contact us if you want the data back,” the group said in its ransom statement, by email and Telegraph information. The agency told reporters Friday that it has all the backup files that were removed by the robbers.
Russia’s notorious Conti terrorist group has listed Australian power group CS Energy among its victims this week, disrupting numerous media reports that Chinese-backed terrorists have carried out the attack. “China’s genocide is about to paralyze the 3 MILLION Australians The Daily Mail he wrote Tuesday. Australia and China have been embroiled in a trade war and relations have begun to deteriorate in recent months, but CS Energy, which serves millions of clients in northeastern Australia and has a Queensland government, said Tuesday that “currently no online incidents have taken place. and the government. “
On Monday, Politico released its West Wing Playbook letter with a report that Vice President Kamala Harris was “Bluetooth-phobic,” and “insisted on using wire headphones,” due to the dangers associated with decades of wireless. It sounds like a bad story, but … right! Bluetooth is a major security issue and has been for years. We’ve been telling you to do that turn off Bluetooth when not in use from 2017. The The National Security Agency agrees with us. If the next person to be US president wants to be a little more careful, let’s just say it’s a good draw. previous cybersecurity hygiene.
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