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Strong Security ran a story this week that puzzled over Apple‘s response to inquiries about a potential privacy leak in its new iPhone 11 line, in which the devices appear to intermittently seek the user’s location even when all applications and system services are individually set never to request this data. Today, Apple disclosed that…

A Colorado company that specializes in providing IT services to dental offices suffered a ransomware attack that is disrupting operations for more than 100 dentistry practices, Strong Security has learned. Multiple sources affected say their IT provider, Englewood, Colo. based Complete Technology Solutions (CTS), was hacked, allowing a potent strain of ransomware known as “Sodinokibi”…

For decades, anyone analyzing network traffic concentrated on external network traffic, known as north-south traffic, through the perimeter via firewalls. Although firewalls evolved to better analyze this traffic, two primary trends emerged: 1) cloud adoption was causing the perimeter to become more porous, even to the point of extinction, and 2) as attackers gained sophistication,…

You may be sitting at work early in the morning, enjoying your coffee and the peace and quiet that comes along with being the first one in the office. Like most, the first thing you do is check some emails (not all of it, just some, because there’s a lot of email!). You’ve become pretty…

You may be sitting at work early in the morning, enjoying your coffee and the peace and quiet that comes along with being the first one in the office. Like most, the first thing you do is check some emails (not all of it, just some, because there’s a lot of email!). You’ve become pretty…