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News Week Ending March 27, 2022
HP UEFI Firmware Patchby Artie Kaye To start with, what is UEFI? UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)is the successor to the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) on motherboards. It is the program that tells the motherboard how to work in relation to the various hardware connected to it. Because this exists outside of any operating system…
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News Week Ending March 20, 2022
Lapsus$ Hacks Samsung by Artie Kaye Samsung confirmed on March 7th that they had been hacked. The hackers copied information from their servers related to the Galaxy system code. Samsung states that no personal data was copied. Ransoming the data is what normally happens after attacks like this, but all 190 gigs were posted online for…
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News Week Ending March 13, 2022
New Russian Certificate Authorityby Artie Kaye With the recent changes in Russia’s position in the world, and many online entities refusing to allow traffic into or out of Russia, the country has started to issue their own certificate authorities, or CA’s. CA’s are the digital signature that your browser gets from a website that says…
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News Week Ending March 6, 2022
Children launching DDoS attacks against schools in UKby Artie Kaye UK Law enforcement found a large increase in use of denial of service (or DoS) attacks. These attacks are being committed by children and have been used against schools in the UK. Law enforcement is taking preventative measures to educate across the country highlighting which…
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News Week Ending February 27, 2022
Google Workspace Removing Free Accountsby Artie Kaye Starting May 1st 2022 Google is discontinuing their free Google Workspace program. This service is changing to G Suite and will require subscription fees. This change will not affect how you can access your data, but you will need to pay to continue using the services. If you…