Dan Goodin
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Google adds client-side encryption to Gmail and Calendar. Should you care?
COMING TO A WORKSPACE NEAR YOU — New service occupies a middle ground between E2EE and mere server-side encryption Dan…
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More than 4,400 Sophos firewall servers remain vulnerable to critical exploits
UNPATCHED, UNPROTECTED — Exploiting vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating isn’t particularly hard. Dan Goodin – Jan 18, 2023 1:31 am…
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LastPass users: Your info and vault data is now in hackers’ hands
STOLEN KEYS — Password manager says breach it disclosed in August was much worse than thought. Dan Goodin – Dec…
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Microsoft links Russia’s military to cyberattacks in Poland and Ukraine
FROM SANDWORM WITH LOVE — The hacking group Microsoft ID’d is among the world’s most cutthroat and skilled. Dan Goodin…
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How 3 hours of inaction from Amazon cost cryptocurrency holders $235,000
Amazon recently lost control of IP addresses it uses to host cloud services and took more than three hours to…
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Hackers are targeting industrial systems with malware
INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS — An entire ecosystem of sketchy software is targeting potentially critical infrastructure. Dan Goodin – Jul 16,…
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A wide range of routers are under attack by new, unusually sophisticated malware
ZUORAT — Router-stalking ZuoRAT is likely the work of a sophisticated nation-state, researchers say. Dan Goodin – Jun 29, 2022…
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Botched and silent patches from Microsoft put customers at risk, critics say
GOT TRANSPARENCY? — Case in point: It took five months and three patches to fix a critical Azure threat. Dan…
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New ultra-stealthy Linux backdoor isn’t your everyday malware discovery
SYMBIOTE — Symbiote gives remote access to any account. Normal methods don’t detect it. Dan Goodin – Jun 9, 2022…
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Critical Atlassian 0-day is under active exploit. You’re patched, right?
GOT PATCHES — Researchers who found vulnerability warn it’s “dangerous and trivially exploited.” Dan Goodin – Jun 3, 2022 11:41…
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