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Microsoft expands free logging capabilities after May breach

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Microsoft has expanded free logging capabilities for all Purview Audit standard customers, including U.S. federal agencies, six months after disclosing that Chinese hackers stole U.S. government emails undetected in an Exchange Online breach between May and June 2023.


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Microsoft says it fixed a Windows Metadata server issue that’s still broken

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Microsoft claims to have fixed Windows Metadata connection issues which continue to plague customers, causing problems for users trying to manage their printers and other hardware.


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New ‘Gold Pickaxe’ Android, iOS malware steals your face for fraud

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A new iOS and Android trojan named 'GoldPickaxe' employs a social engineering scheme to trick victims into scanning their faces and ID documents, which are believed to be used to generate deepfakes for unauthorized banking access.


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Microsoft February 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 2 zero-days, 73 flaws

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Today is Microsoft's February 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 73 flaws and two actively exploited zero-days.


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New Fortinet RCE bug is actively exploited, CISA confirms

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CISA confirmed today that attackers are actively exploiting a critical remote code execution (RCE) bug patched by Fortinet on Thursday.


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Microsoft fixes Copilot issue blocking Windows 11 upgrades

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Microsoft has lifted a compatibility hold that blocked upgrades to Windows 11 23H2 after resolving an issue that caused desktop icons to move erratically when using Windows Copilot on multi-monitor systems.


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Microsoft releases first Windows Server 2025 preview build

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Microsoft has released Windows Server Insider Preview 26040, the first Windows Server 2025 build for admins enrolled in its Windows Insider program.

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Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Microsoft is investigating an ongoing and widespread outage impacting the users of its Teams communication platform and causing connectivity issues, login problems, and message delays.


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23andMe data breach: Hackers stole raw genotype data, health reports

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Genetic testing provider 23andMe confirmed that hackers stole health reports and raw genotype data of customers affected by a credential stuffing attack that went unnoticed for five months, from April 29 to September 27.


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Google Pixel phones unusable after January 2024 system update

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Google Pixel smartphone owners report problems after installing the January 2024 Google Play system update, being unable to access their devices internal storage, open the camera, take screenshots, or even open apps.


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Microsoft testing Windows 11 USB 80Gbps support, Copilot on login

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Microsoft is now testing support for the USB4 Version 2.0 specification in Windows 11, enabling transfer speeds of up to 80 Gbps over USB Type-C cables.


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Bitwarden adds passkey support to log into web password vaults

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The open-source Bitwarden password manager has announced that all users can now log into their web vaults using a passkey instead of the standard username and password pairs.


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Data breach at healthcare tech firm impacts 4.5 million patients

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HealthEC LLC, a provider of health management solutions, suffered a data breach that impacts close to 4.5 million individuals who received care through one of the company's customers.


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Nearly 11 million SSH servers vulnerable to new Terrapin attacks

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Almost 11 million internet-exposed SSH servers are vulnerable to the Terrapin attack that threatens the integrity of some SSH connections.


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CISA warns of actively exploited bugs in Chrome and Excel parsing library

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added two vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, a recently patched flaw in Google Chrome and a bug affecting an open-source Perl library for reading information in an Excel file called Spreadsheet::ParseExcel.


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Google Groups is ending support for Usenet to combat spam

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Google has officially announced its ceasing support for Usenet groups on its Google Groups platform, a move partly attributed to the platform's increasing struggle with spam content. 

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The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2023

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2023 was a big year for cybersecurity, with significant cyberattacks, data breaches, new threat groups emerging, and, of course, zero-day vulnerabilities. 

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EasyPark discloses data breach that may impact millions of users

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Parking app developer EasyPark has published a notice on its website warning of a data breach it discovered on December 10, 2023, which impacts an unknown number of its millions of users. 

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Blockchain dev's wallet emptied in "job interview" using npm package

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A blockchain developer shares his ordeal over the holidays when he was approached on LinkedIn by a "recruiter" for a web development job. 

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Mortgage firm LoanCare warns 1.3 million people of data breach

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Mortgage servicing company LoanCare is warning 1,316,938 borrowers across the U.S. that their sensitive information was exposed in a data breach at its parent company, Fidelity National Financial. 

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