Tag Archives: Security

A picture is being shared widely online with false claims it shows plumes of smoke emanating from the headquarters of Ukraine’s security service in Kyiv after a missile attack by Russia.

A Facebook post sharing an image claiming to be of the headquarters says: “Breaking news: What hit the security headquarters of the SBU in Kiev?! All the important officers were inside‼”

However, this is not what the photograph circulating on Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter), depicts.

The image is actually a screenshot from a video showing a section of the evacuated port silos in Beirut, Lebanon, collapsing in August 2022 after a fire broke out on the site in July. 

This followed a huge explosion in the port in August 2020, involving thousands of tonnes of stored…

When you upgrade from antivirus to a full security suite, you expect such enhancements as a firewall, ransomware protection, and more. With Quick Heal Internet Security, ransomware and firewall protection are already present at the antivirus level. Upgrading gets you email and spam protection, parental control, safe banking, and other niceties. The additions are useful, but the core protection they are built on is just decent. For an entry-level suite with a full contingent of quality features, we recommend Editors’ Choice winner Bitdefender Internet Security.

How Much Does Quick Heal Internet Security Cost?

The price of a single-device license for an entry-level security suite ranges from about $40 to about $60 per year, with K7 Total Security being an outlier at $27. G Data Internet…

A video being widely shared online claims that Rishi Sunak’s wife will benefit from money from the government to protect Jewish sites in the UK. But Full Fact can find no evidence that this claim is true. The original video was deleted after we got in touch.

The video was originally uploaded to TikTok on 29 February and has since been shared by different accounts on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter), and over 10,000 times on Facebook, with text versions of the claim also being shared on the platform. 

During the clip, a man says: “You [Rishi Sunak] signed off this morning for £58 million to protect the Jewish community.”

He goes on to say: “But that £58 million is going to security firms isn’t it? Yes it is. And who owns shares in that? It’s not your…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) carried a flaw which allowed threat actors to hijack people’s sessions and execute malicious code on underlying instances, remotely, experts have warned.

Cybersecurity researchers Tenable discovered the vulnerability and dubbed it FlowFixation, explaining the vulnerability stems from both session fixation on the AWS MWAA web management platform, and a misconfiguration in the AWS domain. These two open the doors for a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. 

This week’s look back at the last seven days on the official Microsoft 365 Roadmap website reveals some new Outlook features for users and admins, along with a couple of Teams-related features.

Microsoft Outlook – New admin security features are coming and more

If you are an admin who works at a company that uses the classic Outlook for desktop, Mac, and/or mobile devices, you are getting some new security options soon:

The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in Outlook can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to control whether these Report actions appear in Outlook, where these…