Microsoft Research’s Project Freta aims to find invisible malware running on the cloud. Human beings are lazy and frugal. As soon as we can stop using a person to do something simple, we do. People are much better suited to doing expensive, complex things. And so, more than 200 years after the beginning of the industrial revolution, we still carry on automating the workplace.  The latest incarnation is the public cloud, which runs at a…

Pulse Secure has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability that was being exploited by multiple APT groups to target US defense companies, among other entities. The security update fixes CVE-2021-22893, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure VPN product which has a CVSS score of 10.0. It was being exploited in combination with bugs from 2019 and 2020, patched by the vendor but not applied by some organizations, to bypass multi-factor authentication on the…

It was 1977, and soon-to-be-fans were greeted with a masterful score and scrolling text. Darth Vader and Princess Leia share the screen in those opening moments, and the Star Wars universe was created. Nearly 30 years later, a new film would introduce us to the events immediately preceding the “scene that launched a franchise,” but how did things get to be this bad? How was it that the Emperor and a half-man, half-machine atrocity named…

Music is lovely, isn’t it? It has the ability to brighten days with upbeat bars or provide a comfortable place of solace and reflection via gentle, soothing notes. Whether you typically opt for Black Sabbath, Shakira, or Bob Marley, music meets our ears in many different ways – and harmony is not always one-size-fits-all. We recognize this when a friend, sibling, partner, or stranger earnestly (yet tonelessly) attempts to mimic Mariah Carey’s five-octave range, resulting…

Phishing attacks imitate Wells Fargo and Chase the most Length: 11:00 | May 3, 2021 These popular banks are being spoofed in attacks targeting people filing taxes, getting stimulus checks and ordering deliveries, says Check Point. Source link

  She started out pursuing a career in Human Resources, but soon learned it wasn’t the right fit. While pursuing her MBA, Anna-Magdalena Kohl took a chance on a work-study position at an IT security company, even though she had no formal technical training. It was a move that would define her career path. The company, in turn, took a chance on her, investing in her technical education. In this edition of our podcast, Anna-Magdalena…

A security flaw in AirDrop found by users Length: 9:03 | May 3, 2021 Someone who knows how can obtain your phone number and email address when you try to share a file from your iPhone, say researchers at the University of Darmstadt. Source link