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IBM Cloud global outage caused by “incorrect” BGP routing On June 9th, 2020, IBM Cloud data centers suffered a global outage that caused connectivity issues for many of the web sites and platforms utilizing the service, including BleepingComputer. For BleepingComputer, the outage started at approximately 6:05 PM EST, and services were restored around 9:00 PM.
Windows 10 Privacy Settings bug lets users change admin options The Microsoft June 2020 Patch Tuesday consisted of 129 security fixes for critical and important vulnerabilities. Of these, an “Important” and equally ironic vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1296, concerns privilege escalation in the Windows Diagnostics & Feedback settings app: the annoying privacy setting screen is shown to users when setting up
Search hijackers change Chrome policy to remote administration The latest type of installer in the saga of search hijacking changes a Chrome policy which tells users it can’t be removed because the browser is managed from the outside. As you can imagine, that has freaked out quite a few Chrome users. We have talked about
The Week in Ransomware – June 12th 2020 – Slithering into networks Attacks picked up at a rapid pace this week as well-known companies and cities were targeted with ransomware that impacted their networks. This week we learned that the Snake Ransomware conducted targeted attacks again both Honda and the Enel Group. The amount of devices encrypted is unknown, but