Musk’s Twitter goal of authenticating all users is good for ending bots but bad for humans
Written by Chris Duckett, APAC Editor Chris Duckett APAC Editor Chris started his journalistic adventure in 2006 as the Editor of Builder AU after...
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1.2 Million Bad Apps Blocked From Reaching Google Play in 2021
Google claims that it prevented 1.2 million bad applications from reaching Google Play in 2021, but cybercriminals are still finding ways to deliver malware...
How Linux Became the New Bullseye for Bad Guys
Organizations need to secure, monitor and manage Linux just like any other endpoint in the network Cybercriminals haven’t historically paid much attention to Linux...
Think Like a Criminal: Knowing Popular Attack Techniques to Stop Bad Actors Faster
Analyzing the attack goals of adversaries is important to be able to better align defenses against the speed of changing attack techniques. By focusing...
When open-source developers go bad
Chances are unless you’re a JavaScript programmer, you’ve never heard of the open-source Javascript libraries ‘colors.js‘ and ‘faker.js.” They’re simple programs that respectively let...
Facebook’s Meta says bad actors are changing tactics as it takes down six more groups
Meta has detailed takedowns of what it described as six ‘adversarial networks’ from across the world that were using Facebook for behaviour including spreading...
Bad Santa: Amazon, Facebook top Mozilla’s naughty list of privacy-crushing gifts
Mozilla has released the latest edition of its *Privacy Not Included shopping guide, aiming to provide holiday buyers with a concrete list of how...
Bad form: FBI server sending fake emails taken offline and fixed, no data impacted
Image: Dzelat/Shutterstock The FBI has placed the blame for a weekend fake email incident on a misconfiguration in its Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP)...
CISA Expands ‘Bad Practices’ List With Single-Factor Authentication
The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week added single-factor authentication to its list of bad practices. “Single-factor authentication is a...
CISA Adds Single-Factor Authentication to the List of Bad Practices
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added single-factor authentication to the short list of “exceptionally risky” cybersecurity practices that could...