Today in Privacy — Oct 24
Posted by PrivacyWire
- Trust Is Not What It Seems — And Fraudsters Are Counting on It — Help-desk calls that use social engineering and artificial intelligence can bypass technical defenses without malware, putting organizational access and… — discuss · link - Computer Security Is About to Get a Lot Worse, Here’s What You Can Do — Software vulnerabilities can expose private data, weaken security, and give attackers or surveillance systems ways to access devices and communications. Since… — discuss · link - Railway warns devs to rotate secrets after potential breach — Railway detected suspicious activity in systems that store customer environment variables, which may expose secrets used to access services and data. The… — discuss · link - There's a third PHP2Shell bug, but it won't get an emergency fix — Bad things (and software bugs?) come in threes — link - GoDaddy Revokes 404,607 SSL Certificates After Policy Errors — GoDaddy revoked 404,607 SSL/TLS certificates after finding certificate-policy errors, with affected sites including some Gibraltar government websites. — link These stories show how access can fail through human trust, software flaws, exposed secrets, or certificate mistakes, without a traditional malware attack. How are you seeing organizations prepare for failures in identity, cloud credentials, vulnerable software, and certificate management?