Publishing GitHub event data with GitHub Actions and Pages
A guide to overcoming the GitHub event data horizon with a little command-line magic. Teams who work on GitHub rely on event data to collaborate.…
Month: April 2023
Google Search outage prevents some from seeing search results
Google Search is currently suffering a partial outage that prevents the search engine from returning search results for some people. According to DownDetector, the outage…
Goldoson Android Malware Found in 60 Apps with 100M Downloads
Goldson malware can collect data from apps installed on the device, as well as from Bluetooth- and Wi-Fi-connected devices. McAfee’s Mobile Research Team researchers discovered…
Avoid this “lost injured dog” Facebook hoax
We take a look at a Facebook hoax which uses supposedly injured dogs as the lure for a bait and switch scam. Facebook users are…
BlackCat Group Claims Responsibility for NCR Ransomware Attack
The ransomware attack was discovered on April 12th, 2023 when the company began investigating an issue in its Aloha restaurant point of sale (PoS) product.…
Swatting-as-a-Service is a growing and complicated problem to solve
Using a false call to deploy emergency services to the address of a victim or a school has been turned into Swatting-as-a-Service One Telegram channel…
Make Your Cybersecurity Dollars Last Longer
In my last blog, I examined why cybercrime increases during economic hardship and why innovation and vigilance are necessary to keep up. But how are…
LockBit ransomware on Mac: Should we worry?
With plans to offer more ransomware, LockBit has just created a variant for macOS. But, as experts have pointed out, it’s hardly ready for anything.…
Security updates to cover your entire attack surface
TL/DR: Just as vulnerabilities are constantly evolving, so must your approach to external attack surface monitoring. In addition to our ongoing Crowdsource security research, we…
How to Get the OBS Studio Virtual Cam to Work in Discord on Mac
Created/Updated: April 18, 2023 This is harder than it should be. Way harder. 0. Enable your terminal to make changes Open System Settings -> Privacy…
Hack into any linux machine exploiting this bluetooth subsystem vulnerability
Within the Linux kernel, a security flaw that has been given the identifier CVE-2023-2002 has been discovered; this flaw poses a severe threat to computer…
A cron job that could save you from a ransomware attack
How a simple scheduled job can help you quickly recover from ransomware. It’s 2019, and ransomware has become a thing. Systems that interact with the…