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Cyber Security Archive

Archives for July 2024

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Hacktivists release Heritage Foundation data allegedly stolen in response to “Project 2025.”

A group that has previously claimed responsibility for breaching NATO, as well as satellite systems used by Halliburton and Shell, tells CyberScoop they’ve released 2GB of data from the conservative think tank behind “Project 2025” policy proposals for a second Trump administration.

The data includes the “full names, email addresses, passwords, and usernames” of people associating with Heritage, vio said, including users with U.S. government email addresses. “This itself can have an impact to heritage’s (sic) reputation,” they added, “and it’ll especially push away users in positions of power.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google Fi has a new feature to help protect against SIM swaps.

With Number Lock, you can’t transfer your phone number to a new phone or port your number over to another carrier, Google says.

If you have Google Fi, it’s probably worth setting this up — SIM swapping attacks can be pretty bad!

David Pierce
David Pierce
Scalpers: always one step ahead of Ticketmaster.

Ticketmaster does some pretty wild (and user-hostile) stuff in the name of stopping scalpers and bots from getting all the good tickets. And the scalpers and bots seem to always have another move. Case in point: those rotating barcodes on your ticket.

If you’ve bought a ticket, this token can be extracted from within the Ticketmaster app (or, in some cases, from Ticketmaster’s desktop website), exported to a third-party platform, and tickets can then be generated on that third-party platform.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Microsoft employees in China will only be able to use iPhones soon.

Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative is set to impact Chinese employees in September, with the software giant reportedly set to cut off Android devices from accessing its corporate network. Bloomberg News reports that the move is due to Android devices in China lacking Google’s Play store to distribute Authenticator and identity apps for Microsoft employees. Microsoft is ramping up its internal security efforts after a series of high-profile attacks in recent years.