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![S3 Ep43: Apple 0-day, pygmy hippos, hive nightmares and Twitter hacker bust [Podcast]](https://www.netsafesolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/nean-with-mic-wt-brownish-1200.png)
S3 Ep43: Apple 0-day, pygmy hippos, hive nightmares and Twitter hacker bust [Podcast]
by Paul Ducklin [01’08”] Apple’s emergency 0-day fix. [08’51”] A new sort of Windows nightmare, this one not involving printers. [20’39”] Another new sort of Windows nightmare, also with no printers. [27’37”] Twitter hacker busted....
Microsoft researcher found Apple 0-day in March, didn’t report it
Apple emergency zero-day fix for iPhones and Macs – get it now!
by Paul Ducklin You might be forgiven for thinking that July 2021 was Microsoft’s month for cybersecurity vulnerabilities. First there was PrintNightmare in several guises, followed by HiveNightmare (an entirely unrelated bug that nevertheless attracted the...
Windows “PetitPotam” network attack – how to protect against it
by Paul Ducklin French researcher Gilles Lionel, who goes by @topotam77, recently published proof-of-concept code that attackers could use to take over a Windows network. The hack, which he has dubbed PetitPotam (which is a nod to the endangered Pygmy Hippopotamus, as...
US court gets UK Twitter hack suspect arrested in Spain
by Paul Ducklin You can probably guess what we mean by “Twitter hack“. Some data breaches involve millions or even billions of accounts, perhaps compromised by a leaky cloud storage server or a poorly-secured customer database. In contrast, the Twitter hack we’re...
![S3 Ep42: Viruses, Nightmares, patches, rewards and scammers [Podcast]](https://www.netsafesolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/nean-with-mic-wt-paleish-green-1200.png)
S3 Ep42: Viruses, Nightmares, patches, rewards and scammers [Podcast]
by Paul Ducklin [00’38”] Learning from computer virus history. [02’26”] The PrintNightmare saga continues. [05’27”] Apple puts out a patch, but doesn’t say why. [08’12”] Snitch on a crook and earn $10...
Windows “HiveNightmare” bug could leak passwords – here’s what to do!
by Paul Ducklin As if one Windows Nightmare dogging all our printers were not enough… …here’s another bug, disclosed by Microsoft on 2021-07-20, that could expose critical secrets from the Windows registry. Denoted CVE-2021-36934, this one has variously been nicknamed...
Apple iPhone patches are out – no news if recent Wi-Fi bug is fixed
by Paul Ducklin It’s already nearly two months since Apple’s last security update to iOS 14, which was back on 2021-05-24 when iOS 14.6 appeared. So we weren’t surprised to see that another patch is out, officially listed [2021-07-19] as covering iOS (now on 14.7),...
Latest Cisco AppDynamics App Attention Index Reveals Brands Have Only One Shot to Win Over Customers
News Summary ● 76 percent of consumers say their expectations of digital services have increased since the start of 2020. ● 60 percent of consumers now blame the application and brand when they encounter a...