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Something’s not right. Maybe your phone is losing its charge way too quickly. Or one day it suddenly starts turning itself off and on again. Perhaps it’s running hot, so hot it’s hard to hold. Likewise, you might see outgoing calls that you never dialed or strange spikes in your data usage. Signs like these could mean that your smartphone’s been hacked.  Several signs of a potential smartphone hack can look like a technical issue, at least on the surface. Yet the fact is that these issues may…

Researchers have discovered a set of previously unknown methods to launch URL redirection attacks against weak OAuth 2.0 implementations. These attacks can lead to the bypassing of phishing detection and email security solutions, and at the same time, gives phishing URLs a false snse of legitimacy to victims. The relevant campaigns were detected by Proofpoint, and target Outlook Web Access, PayPal, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace. How the attack works OAuth 2.0 is a widely…

0Auth 2.0 Authorization Code Flows The OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol requires developers to register their applications within the OAuth provider’s framework in order to receive a unique application ID. As part of this process, developers provide their redirect URI, so the provider can redirect the user with the authorization response to the redirect URI. The OAuth 2.0 flow, meanwhile, is made up of authorization code flows, implicit flows and hybrid flows, which combines the authorization…

Half a decade ago, in the wake of the rise of cloud computing, some IT evangelists, CIOs, and large tech research firms foretold the imminent death of the data center as we know it. My co-columnist at CIO.com Mark Settle at the time advised caution in writing off data centers and envisaged how they  would continue to grow based on the evolution of – you guessed it – data. Today, data centers continue to not…