Day: January 27, 2021

Best Apple MacBook deals: Save $69 on M1 MacBook Air, $89 on M1 MacBook Pro, more on older models – CNET

The new M1 MacBook models are already discounted, and you can save up to $300 on the older, Intel-based models. …read more Source:: CNet


Boeing 737 Max gets EU approval to resume flights – CNET

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency cleared the plane to fly again, with some modifications. …read more Source:: CNet


Today’s ‘sophisticated cyber attack’ victim is the Woodland Trust: Pre-Xmas breach under investigation

Potentially 250,000 reasons UK nature conservation charity was targeted The Woodland Trust, a peaceful British charity that looks after trees, was struck by a “cyber attack” before Christmas.… …read more Source:: Register


World Economic Forum ranks cybersecurity failure as a significant global risk

The 16th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report analyses the risks from societal fractures—manifested through persistent and emerging risks to human health, rising unemployment, widening digital divides, youth disillusionment, and geopolitical fragmentation. Among the highest impact risks of the next decade, infectious diseases are in the top spot, followed by climate action…


Threat group abuses cloud services, targets semiconductor companies, airline industry

NCC Group and Fox-IT have been tracking a threat group – Chimera – with a wide set of interests, from intellectual property (IP) from victims in the semiconductors industry through to passenger data from the airline industry. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine


Security’s Inevitable Shift to the Edge

As the edge becomes the place for DDoS mitigation, Web app security, and other controls, SASE is the management platform to handle them all. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Preventing the next Malwarebytes breach: Get rid of passwords?

U.S. cybersecurity company Malwarebytes is the latest victim in a string of attacks targeting top security firms including FireEye, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike. In a statement from the company, the hackers breached the internal systems by way of a dormant email protection product within their Office 365 tenant that allowed access to a limited subset of…


TikTok To Shed Hundreds of India Workers After National Security Ban

TikTok has announced that it will lay off hundreds of workers in India, [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source] seven months after the Chinese-owned video app was banned from what was once its biggest international market on national security grounds. From a report: The company, whose parent is Chinese tech group ByteDance,…


New Google cloud service aims to bring zero trust security to the web

Google launches BeyondCorp Enterprise, a new enterprise security service. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Insurers Defend Covering Ransomware Payments

…read more Source:: PacketStorm