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Ransomware was on everyone s mind again this week as the world s largest meat processing company, JBS SA, faced an attack that crippled its operations in Australia and North America. The company was able to restore operations in just a few days, but the situation underscored once again ransomware s dire threat to supply chains and critical infrastructure worldwide.Â
Researchers are going deeper on investigations of Apple s recently released custom processor, M1, and they re finding all sorts of fascinating behavior and dynamics. And in the world of election security, Microsoft took a big step this week with the announcement that major voting machine vendor Hart InterCivic is incorporating the tech company s open source ElectionGuard software into its existing devices. Hart s first goal is to conduct a real-world pilot of ElectionGuard s âend-to-end verifiableâ voting.
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The ransomware problem isn t getting any better. In fact, it s poised to get even worse, as cybercriminals have begin experimenting with double-encryption ransomware attacks. That works pretty much exactly how it sounds; victims pay a ransom to decrypt their files, only to find that they ve been encrypted by another strain of malware simultaneously. It s a dirty trick, but if recent weeks have shown anything, it s that there s no low to which these groups won t stoop.
In more upbeat news, Google held its annual I/O developer s conference this week. Amid the holograms and Wear OS overhauls the company detailed some important changes to how Android treats your privacy. The upcoming Android 12 release will include a host of security and privacy features, including a dashboard that lets you track which apps are checking your camera, microphone, and location data and when they did. Google s still an advertising company