Security News > 2020 > October
Microsoft is continuing its push to move all Windows 10 configuration options into their modern Settings feature. This year, Microsoft has been making a push to migrate all of the Windows 10 settings into the Settings app.
Video-conferencing giant Zoom is rolling out a technical preview of its end-to-end encryption next week. Zoom has faced various controversies around its encryption policies over the past year, including several lawsuits alleging that the company falsely told users that it offers full encryption.
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Cybersecurity professionals largely embrace automation, but half of younger employees worry that technology could make their roles obsolete, according to a new survey by Exabeam. The research shows that although a whopping 88% of cybersecurity professionals embrace new technology, confident that automation will help them in their roles, it is the younger generation that is skeptical: 53% of respondents under the age of 45 "Agreed or strongly agreed that AI and ML are a threat to their job security," according to the report.
Bookselling giant Barnes & Noble has sent email notifications to its customers to inform them of a recent cyberattack. A Fortune 1000 company, Barnes & Noble is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States.
Because its technology underpins these customers' basic interactions with patients, clients, partners, suppliers and others, plenty of personal data flows through Broadvoice's cloud-based systems. The cache of data included records with personal details of Broadvoice clients' customers, they noted.
The Egregor ransomware gang has hit game developer Crytek in a confirmed ransomware attack and leaked what they claim are files stolen from Ubisoft's network. This week, the Egregor ransomware game posted archives containing unencrypted files, stating that they were stolen from Ubisoft and Crytek in unrelated attacks.
American financial regulators in New York have demanded Twitter be subject to harsher rules following the July hacks of prominent users' accounts - as CEO Jack Dorsey furiously backpedals after his website censored a news article from a US newspaper. The New York State Department of Financial Services demanded that Twitter be subject to more "Cybersecurity protections", controlled and overseen, naturally, by itself.
Iran's cybersecurity authority acknowledged cyberattacks on two governmental departments this week, state media reported Thursday. The cyberattacks occurred Tuesday and Wednesday and were under investigation, the state-owned IRAN daily newspaper said.
UPDATE. Barnes & Noble is warning that it has been hacked, potentially exposing personal data for shoppers - and offering phishers an early holiday gift. In any event, Barnes & Noble said that its IT team "Doesn't know" yet if customer info was exposed, but the systems that were hit contained personal data, so it may have been.