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CounterFlow AI announced Carter Bullard as the company's new Chief Technology Officer. A significant voice in the cybersecurity and networking community for over 35 years, Carter joins CounterFlow AI to lead technology innovation as the company continues to deliver network security solutions that provide visibility into encrypted traffic.

Intel has addressed Wi-Fi and Wireless Bluetooth drivers issues causing Windows 10 blue screen of death errors and Bluetooth devices to lose connection or stop working. The new Intel Wireless drivers address Windows 10 stop errors and issues causing wireless adapters to fail to connect to 5GHz networks.

That's a tiny share of the estimated tens of billions of dollars in jobless benefits states have given to identity thieves in the past year. A new report from the Labor Department's Office of Inspector General found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5 billion in fraudulent jobless benefits - nearly two-thirds of the phony claims it reviewed - was paid out to individuals with Social Security numbers filed in multiple states.

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Now, a wave of well-funded email security startups are emerging to take another stab at securing the entry point for almost all major cyber attacks. Email security specialists Armorblox on Thursday announced a new $30 million venture capital funding round, joining a growing list of well-heeled startups taking a stab addressing one of cybersecurity's most difficult problems: keeping malicious hackers out of corporate mailboxes.

Human-rights activists are being targeted by cyberattacks as part of a wider effort by the Vietnamese state to censor anyone speaking out against the government, Amnesty International's Security Lab alleges. Ocean Lotus, a well-known threat actor dating back to 2013, is behind the spyware campaign against human-rights defenders and has long been identified as having goals "Aligned with the Vietnamese state interests," according to Amnesty International's report on the situation.

Microsoft is no longer treating possibly the most unused folder, 3D Objects, as a special folder in File Explorer. As a place to store all those 3D object files that Microsoft thought people would be downloading, they created a '3D Objects' folder in each user's user profile directory.

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A security researcher has recommended against using the LastPass password manager Android app after noting seven embedded trackers. German infosec bod Mike Kuketz spotted LastPass's trackers in analysis produced by Exodus, which describes itself as "a non-profit organization led by hacktivists [whose] purpose is to help people get a better understanding of the Android applications tracking issues."

A security researcher has recommended against using the LastPass password manager Android app after noting seven embedded trackers. German infosec bod Mike Kuketz spotted LastPass's trackers in analysis produced by Exodus, which describes itself as "a non-profit organization led by hacktivists [whose] purpose is to help people get a better understanding of the Android applications tracking issues."