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Lawrence Abrams Lawrence Abrams is the owner and Editor in Chief of BleepingComputer.com. Lawrence's area of expertise includes malware removal and computer forensics.

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."

The recent cyberattack that forced the Dutch Research Council to take its servers offline and suspend grant allocation processes was caused by the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang. Since NWO does not cooperate with cybercriminals, DoppelPaymer published proof of the stolen internal data on their leak site.

Microsoft has open-sourced CodeQL queries that developers can use to scan source code for malicious implants matching the SolarWinds supply-chain attack. To make sure the attackers did not modify their code, Microsoft created CodeQL queries that were used to scan their codebase for malicious implants matching the SolarWinds IOCs.

Jack Wallen tries out the Firewalla Gold to see if it's worthy of serving as your work-from-home security device. Enter devices like the Firewalla, which are quite good at serving the needs of home users.