The Information Highway

The Information Highway

Lawrence Abrams is the owner and Editor in Chief of BleepingComputer.com. Lawrence’s area of expertise includes Windows, security, malware research, ransomware, and computer forensics. Lawrence Abrams is also a co-author of the Winternals Defragmentation, Recovery, and Administration Field Guide and technical editor for Rootkits for Dummies.

Cisco takes DevHub portal offline after hacker publishes stolen data

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Cisco confirmed today that it took its public DevHub portal offline after a threat actor leaked "non-public" data, but it continues to state that there is no evidence that its systems were breached.

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Microsoft warns it lost some customer's security logs for a month

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Microsoft is warning enterprise customers that, for almost a month, a bug caused critical logs to be partially lost, putting at risk companies that rely on this data to detect unauthorized activity.

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Amazon says 175 million customer now use passkeys to log in

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Amazon has seen massive adoption of passkeys since the company quietly rolled them out a year ago, announcing today that over 175 million customers use the security feature.

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Cisco investigates breach after stolen data for sale on hacking forum

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Cisco has confirmed that it is investigating recent claims that it suffered a breach after a threat actor began selling allegedly stolen data on a hacking forum.

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Microsoft deprecates PPTP and L2TP VPN protocols in Windows Server

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Microsoft has officially deprecated the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) and Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) in future versions of Windows Server, recommending admins switch to different protocols that offer increased security.

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