Due to security concerns with the Chinese owned app, the United States Government has banned it from any device it manages: US House boots TikTok from government phones • The Register
Do you want to buy a Twitter account?
It appears that information relating to hundreds of millions of Twitter accounts is available for sale: Stolen info on 400m+ Twitter accounts supposedly up for sale • The Register But who speaks for Twitter? Don’t try and question Twitter about this alleged leak or try to follow what Twitter publicly …
LastPass now admit that the hackers copied the user password files
OK the files are encrypted and supposedly will take forever to crack – using today’s technology. But the real issue here is that LastPass has taken all this time to work out that the hackers did get password files – something that LastPass has previously denied. That denial had reassured …
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Sometimes patches make things worse…
Blue Screens Software is complicated, and often security patches are needed in a hurry so testing may miss something – as in the case of some Windows 10 systems and this month’s Patch Tuesday: Patch Tuesday update is causing Windows 10 to blue screen • The Register The page on …
Other patches and updates in the news
Other companies gather around Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday and issue their updates round and about the same time and there are also the critical patches that are issued when needed. Here are some that are in the news but you should be checking your systems for updates: AWS fixes vulnerability affecting …
