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The FBI has warned families of missing persons to be on their guard for extortion demands from cyber-criminals claiming to have abducted their loved ones. The scammers typically scour social media posts to gather information about missing persons and their families. They’ll carry out open source research to find out more about the individual in order to make their claims more realistic. The fraudsters will then contact those family members online or call/message them using…

Microsoft is bringing advanced hardware security to more Surface devices with cloud firmware management to help enterprises deploy new PCs quickly. Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4 is the second Surface device that uses Secured-core to protect the firmware. This brings what used to be optional security features that you had to test and manage, and then built-in security designed for the industries most targeted by attackers, further into the mainstream. It’s also the first Secured-core PC available with an AMD processor (and…

Famous mock musician David St. Hubbins once said, “There’s a fine line between stupid and clever.” On one side of the line is an endless celebration of genius. On the other: failure and ignominy. The tech industry has no choice but to embrace innovation and risk taking. As such, some innovations start out looking crazy but end up being brilliant. Others start out looking just as crazy and implode under the weight of their own…

Responding to the all too familiar news of compromised Amazon cloud storage, security researchers have begun leaving “friendly warnings” on AWS S3 accounts with exposed data or incorrect permissions. The misconfiguration of access control on AWS storage “buckets” has been behind numerous high profile data breaches, including Verizon, The Pentagon, Uber and FedEx. Researchers have begun taking security notification into their own hands, with security advice left behind on publicly accessible storage. These warning messages come in multiple forms from multiple sources,…

Imagine, if you will, a scene straight out of one of your favorite impossible mission movies. The background music is driving a suspenseful beat while the antagonist attempts to steal the latest technology from a very favored industry competitor called Rad-X Incorporated. It’s a trade secret that will change the industry forever, and if the villain achieves her mission, she will hold the future of aviation in the palm of her hand. She’s bypassed laser…