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Decipher Podcast: Melanie Ensign
Melanie Ensign of Uber joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the challenges and rewards of working in security and privacy communications.
Critical Kubernetes Bug Gives Anyone Full Admin Privileges
With a 9.8 rating on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, the privilege escalation flaw in container orchestration system Kubernetes is as bad as it can get. Any user will be able to remotely gain full administrator privileges on any node in the cluster.
Mastercard, Microsoft Team Up on New Digital Identity Platform
Microsoft and Mastercard plan to work together to develop a new platform for verifying identities online that can be used across multiple services and for different purposes.
Decipher Podcast: Katie Moussouris
Katie Moussouris of Luta Security speaks with Dennis Fisher about the security industry's constant cycle of mistakes and the hidden perils of bug bounty programs.
Microsoft Open Sources SEAL Homomorphic Encryption Library
Microsoft has made its SEAL homomorphic encryption library open source, a part of an effort to help standardize the encryption scheme.
500 Million Affected in Marriott Data Breach
Attackers had access to a portion of the Starwood network for four years, resulting in a data breach at parent company Marriott that affects as many as 500 million people.
Mapping the Spectral Landscape of IPv6 Networks
Two researchers have developed an open source toolset called ipv666 that helps predict IPv6 addresses and find live hosts.
Decipher Podcast: Mikhail Davidov
Dennis Fisher is joined by Mikhail Davidov of Duo Labs to talk about his detailed research on the Apple T2 security chip.
U.S. Dismantles Massive 3ve Click-Fraud Operation
It's a good day when law enforcement, working with industry partners like Google, Symantec and White Ops dismantle a massive operation designed to steal advertising revenue.
Software Update Led to Microsoft Azure MFA Outage
A trio of problems caused by a software update in some of Microsoft's data centers led to a service outage for customers of the Microsoft Entra ID MFA service last week.
Making the Case for a Botnet-Free Internet
Imagine the internet with no botnets. That's the ambitious vision, with more regulations holding more organizations accountable for botnet activities on their networks, as laid out in a Council on Foreign Relations paper.
Windows Now Supports Password-Less Authentication With Security Keys
Microsoft customers now have the option of logging in to Windows, on desktop or mobile devices, with a FIDO2-compliant security key--and no password.
Apple’s T2 Chip Good for Secure Boot, Still Room for Improvement
Apple’s T2 chip on the new Macs perform a wide array of tasks to secure the machine from various hardware- and software-based attacks. The fact that the T2 chip can do so much is also potentially its weakness, as it opens up the machine’s attack surface.
U.S. Says Russia, Other Nations, Are Uncooperative on Cybercrime Investigations
A deputy U.S. attorney general said that Russia and other nations stonewall cybercrime investigations and called for international cooperation.
AWS Adds Feature to Block Public Access to S3 Buckets
Amazon's AWS cloud platform now has a security feature that will block all public access to S3 data storage buckets.