Day: February 24, 2021
Online Trackers Increasingly Switching to Invasive CNAME Cloaking Technique
24 February 2021With browser makers steadily clamping down on third-party tracking, advertising technology companies are increasingly embracing a DNS technique to evade such defenses, thereby posing a threat to web security and privacy. Called CNAME Cloaking, the practice of blurring the distinction between first-party and third-party cookies not only results in leaking sensitive private information without users’ […]
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Experts Warns of Notable Increase in QuickBooks Data Files Theft Attacks
24 February 2021New research has uncovered a significant increase in QuickBooks file data theft using social engineering tricks to deliver malware and exploit the accounting software. “A majority of the time, the attack involves basic malware that is often signed, making it hard to detect using antivirus or other threat detection software,” researchers from ThreatLocker said in […]
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Everything You Need to Know About Evolving Threat of Ransomware
24 February 2021The cybersecurity world is constantly evolving to new forms of threats and vulnerabilities. But ransomware proves to be a different animal—most destructive, persistent, notoriously challenging to prevent, and is showing no signs of slowing down. Falling victim to a ransomware attack can cause significant data loss, data breach, operational downtime, costly recovery, legal consequences, and […]
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Data protection companies Arcserve and StorageCraft to merge
24 February 2021Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Two data protection companies, Arcserve and StorageCraft, announced today they are merging into a single company. Arcserve and StorageCraft both sell a range of data management and protection services, including data backup, disaster […]
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Critical RCE Flaws Affect VMware ESXi and vSphere Client — Patch Now
24 February 2021VMware has addressed multiple critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi and vSphere Client virtual infrastructure management platform that may allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands and take control of affected systems. “A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue to execute commands with unrestricted privileges on the […]
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