by Paul Ducklin It’s already nearly two months since Apple’s last security update to iOS 14, which was back on 2021-05-24 when iOS 14.6 appeared. So we weren’t surprised to see that another patch is out, officially listed [2021-07-19] as covering iOS (now on 14.7), tvOS (now also 14.7) and watchOS (now on 7.6). Annoyingly,
Security
by Paul Ducklin [01’32”] We explain how a format string bug could lock your iPhone out of your own network. [08’53”] We revisit the PrintNightmare saga, which is sort-of fixed but not really. [12’50”] We look back at the 20-year-old Code Red virus. [18’30”] We look at what cybercriminals spend money on (hint: more cybercrime). [29’10”] And in this week’s “Oh! No!”, we learn
by Paul Ducklin Just over a week ago, we wrote about the REvil ransomware gang’s latest braggadoccio. As you probably know, ransomware operators like REvil, Clop and others don’t generally work on the front line themselves by conducting the actual network intrusions that deliver the final ransomware warhead. Instead, they recruit teams of “attack affiliates”
by Paul Ducklin “It never rains but that it pours,” as the old weather adage goes. That’s certainly how Microsoft must be seeing things right now, following the official announcement of yet another unpatched vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler service. Dubbed CVE-2021-34481, this one isn’t quite as bad as the previous PrintNightmare problems, because
by Paul Ducklin There’s a famous and very catchy song that starts, “It was 20 years ago today…” In the song, of course, Sergeant Pepper was busily teaching his band to play – a band, as the song assures us, that was guaranteed to raise a smile. But can you remember where you were and
by Paul Ducklin We’ve written several times before about home delivery scams, where cybercriminals take advantage of our ever-increasing (and, in coronavirus times, often unavoidable) use of online ordering combined with to-the-doorstep delivery. Over the past year or so, we’ve noticed what we must grudgingly admit is a gradual improvement in believability on the part