Security News > 2020 > November
More recently, the software giant has added a new modern disk management tool to the Settings, and the feature is already live for Insiders. The modern solution is called "Manage Disks and Volumes" and Microsoft calls it a modern take on Windows 10's current disk management tool.
Hackers are looking to cash in on the top shopping days in the U.S. - Black Friday and Cyber Monday - as well as other events, like Singles' Day, which recently occurred this week in China. Last year, researchers said that social-media scams and domain-impersonation scams were some of the biggest types of attacks during the holiday shopping season.
Over the past few weeks, Malwarebytes consumer and business users have complained that their Windows network printers keep getting kicked offline. This issue started around October 20th, when an update caused Windows network printers to be blocked by the security software.
One of the security bulletins released this week by Schneider Electric warns customers about Drovorub, a piece of Linux malware that was recently detailed by the NSA and the FBI. The U.S. agencies issued a joint advisory in mid-August to warn organizations that the cyber-espionage group known as APT28, which has been linked to Russia's General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, has been using a piece of Linux malware named Drovorub. Schneider Electric has advised customers to implement defense-in-depth recommendations in order to protect their Trio Q Data Radio and Trio J Data Radio devices against the malware.
A hacker is sharing what they state are 3.2 million Pluto TV user records that were stolen during a data breach. Pluto TV is an Internet television service that lets you stream free TV shows with advertisements.
Plundervolt is a software-based attack on recent Intel processors running SGX enclaves that lowers the voltage to induce faults or errors that allow the recovery of secrets like encryption keys. Half the point of SGX is to protect sensitive code and data from rogue server administrators when said servers are out of reach and in someone else's data center - such as a cloud provider's - and yet it is possible for someone at a cloud provider with physical access to a box to jolt an Intel processor into breaking its SGX protections.
Plundervolt is a software-based attack on recent Intel processors running SGX enclaves that lowers the voltage to induce faults or errors that allow the recovery of secrets like encryption keys. Half the point of SGX is to protect sensitive code and data from rogue server administrators when said servers are out of reach and in someone else's data center - such as a cloud provider's - and yet it is possible for someone at a cloud provider with physical access to a box to jolt an Intel processor into breaking its SGX protections.
When browsing webpages, such as news articles in the Safari web browser on an iPhone or iPad, users can choose to select and share a partial text excerpt from the page, rather than the entire page itself. "It's actually a useful feature that's great for pointing out specific passages in blogs, news articles, and more," Juli Clover, the website's editor had said earlier.
There were not many known large ransomware attacks this week, but we have seen ransomware operations evolving their tactics to extort their victims further. Ransomware operations have also begun new tactics this week to pressure their victims into paying a ransom.
By generating powerful streams of water, UCSD's squid-like robot can swim untethered. The "Squidbot" carries its own power source, and has the room to hold more, including a sensor or camera for underwater exploration.