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Q&A With East-Tec
Q&A With East-Tec
Safety Detectives: Please share your company background, how you got started, and your mission East-Tec: At East-Tec, our primary goal is to provide cybersecurity solutions that enable both individuals and companies to feel sec...
Q&A With ThreatGEN
Q&A With ThreatGEN
Safety Detectives: What is the main service your company offers? ThreatGEN: We provide a cybersecurity gamification platform, ThreatGEN® Red vs. Blue.  ThreatGEN® Red vs. Blue is a cutting-edge cybersecurity simulation and trai...
Microsoft Fixes Windows Active Directory Issue Caused by Recent Updates
Microsoft Fixes Windows Active Directory Issue Caused by Recent Updates
Microsoft says it has fixed an issue caused by last month’s Windows updates that would cause apps using Microsoft.NET to experience problems, close, or throw errors when acquiring or setting Active Directory Forest Trust Informati...
Microsoft Blocked Billions of Brute-Force and Phishing Attacks in 2021
Microsoft Blocked Billions of Brute-Force and Phishing Attacks in 2021
Microsoft successfully blocked billions of phishing emails and brute force attacks that targeted Office 365 and Azure Active Directory customers in 2021. “From January 2021 through December 2021, we've blocked more than 25.6 bi...
NordVPN's Parent Company Is Merging with Surfshark
NordVPN's Parent Company Is Merging with Surfshark
NordVPN and Surfshark, two well-known VPN providers, are merging together to form one company. NordVPN’s parent company, Nord Security, announced the deal on Tuesday. The new company is called Cyberspace, which has been registe...
Business Services Provider Morley Discloses Ransomware Attack
Business Services Provider Morley Discloses Ransomware Attack
Business services provider Morley Companies Inc. disclosed a data breach after falling victim to a ransomware attack on Aug. 1, 2021, according to a security incident notification by the company on Wednesday. The data breach al...
NSO Allegedly Offered 'Bags of Cash' for Access to US Cell Network
NSO Allegedly Offered 'Bags of Cash' for Access to US Cell Network
NSO Group allegedly offered “bags of cash” in return for access to cell networks in the United States to track people through their mobile devices, according to a whistleblower’s complaint to the US Department of Justice (DoJ)...
FTC: US Consumers Lost Over $770 Million from Social Media Fraud in 2021
FTC: US Consumers Lost Over $770 Million from Social Media Fraud in 2021
US consumers have increasingly become targeted for scams by cybercriminals on social media, according to tens of thousands of reports received by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2021. In the FTC’s report released last...
Huge Multinational Security Firm Exposed Sensitive Airports Files
Huge Multinational Security Firm Exposed Sensitive Airports Files
Intro The SafetyDetectives cybersecurity team discovered a critical data leak affecting the prominent multinational security company, Securitas. Securitas, based in Sweden, provides a full suite of security services and produc...
Discord Outage Caused by API & Database Issues
Discord Outage Caused by API & Database Issues
Popular instant messaging app Discord experienced what it classified as a “massive outage” that prevented users from logging into the service or using the app on Wednesday, according to an update on their status page. According...