Protecting Your Digital Future

If you’re on Android and want to enable Signal notifications, you may want to disable smart replies by going to Settings > Apps & Notifications > Notifications > Advanced and making sure “Suggested actions and replies” are turned off. Google says it keeps smart replies private by processing them locally on your device, but the […]

The ever-increasing complexity of technologies that security leaders have to manage can be daunting and impacts their ability to keep their systems secure. According to Palo Alto Networks’ latest research, published on March 13 at the provider’s Ignite event in London, almost two-thirds (64%) of UK organizations cited technology complexity and a lack of interoperability […]

Microsoft on Tuesday released 57 patches touching 13 product families. Two of the addressed issues are considered by Microsoft to be of Critical severity, and 13 have a CVSS base score of 8.0 or higher. Two, both affecting Windows, are under active exploit in the wild. At patch time, two of the addressed Windows issues […]

One month into his second term, President Trump’s actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling an ongoing effort by the world’s richest man to wrest control over their networks and […]

One month into his second term, President Trump’s actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling an ongoing effort by the world’s richest man to wrest control over their networks and […]

A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty last week to leaking phone records for high-ranking U.S. government officials searched online for non-extradition countries and for an answer to the question “can hacking be treason?” prosecutors in the case said Wednesday. The government disclosed the details in a court motion to keep the defendant in custody […]

A sophisticated ‘ClickFix’ phishing campaign is impersonating Booking.com to target hospitality firms with multiple infostealing malware, enabling financial fraud and theft. The ongoing campaign, which began in December 2024, has been attributed by Microsoft Threat Intelligence to a threat cluster known as Storm-1865. The attackers use a social engineering technique called ClickFix to specifically target […]

Tripwire’s February 2025 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft. Up first on the list are patches for Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) that resolve 4 remote code execution and 2 spoofing vulnerabilities. Next on the list are patches for Microsoft Office and Excel. These patches resolve 8 issues such as remote code execution […]

With the explosion of cloud computing, video streaming, AI, and other data-hungry technologies, traditional gigabit Ethernet (GE) networks are struggling to keep up. Bottlenecks and latency issues are hampering application performance and the overall user experience. The newest addition to the Sophos Switch portfolio, CS1010-8FP, provides a cost-effective way to support the high-speed, low-latency requirements […]

How it works: Egregor follows the “double extortion” trend of both encrypting data and threatening to leak sensitive information if the ransom is not paid. Its codebase is relatively sophisticated and able to avoid detection by using obfuscation and anti-analysis techniques.  Targeted victims: As of late November, Egregor victimized at least 71 organizations across 19 industries worldwide. […]