This week in Security news, news ending February 26, 2021 from blog The Technology blog and podcast

This week in Security news, news ending February 26, 2021

I know i’m quite behind in doing a lot of reading, but I happened to come across this digested read dealing with some news in the security field, and I thought it was time to go through and see whats going on.

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Apparently, Facebook, Twitter and other visual apps that the sighted use are vulnerable to problems but now audio apps including the newly popular app called Clubhouse. Several blind people I know or know of have it, and one recently sent me an invite which I never received. Be that as it may, I’d be interested to read this one, and I see it in the Trend Micro archives that i need to read.

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Over 10,000 users were recently hit in a fed-ex lure where people who get this type of email can get bitten with whatever the actor decides to throw at them. Always know if you’re receiving a package. These lures are back!

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We’ve talked about double Extortion before on several episodes of the Security Box, but have we talked about Nefilim ? It doesn’t sound familiar, but Trend Micro has the lowdown on this one.

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Sit down, don’t listen to anything else, turn everything off, because I’m going to tell you something that even I was shocked when I read this. The headline linked says that there wee=re 119,000 threats per minute. Think about this. According to the blurb under the headline:

The number of cyber-threats identified and blocked by Trend Micro rose by 20% in 2020 to more than 62.6 billion. That averages out 119,000 cyber-threats
per minute. Email-borne threats such as phishing attacks accounted for 91% of the 62.6 billion threats blocked by Trend Micro last year. Nearly 14 million
unique phishing URLs were detected by the company in 2020, with home networks a primary target.

Is this something to sneeze at? This article wasn’t written by Trend Micro, so I’m going to have to read this one.

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There are 4 different hacking groups according to an article that are hitting critical infrastructure and these are apparently new ones.

According to another article, Android users now have a way to check on the Security of their passwords. Android hasn’t seemed too keen on security, but now we learn they have something? I know Lastpass can already do this browser extension wise and I’m sure there are other password managers that can do this.

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There are 6700 VMware server exposed to a new bug, according to the news. This can’t be good.

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Find something in the blog post by Mr. Clay you want do discuss? Let’s hear from you! This Week in Security News – Feb, 26, 2021 is the article, let the comments flow in!

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This week in Security news, news ending February 26, 2021 was released on March 4, 2021 at 2:00 pm by tech in article commentary.
Last modified: March 4, 2021.

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