My Shared Links — Week 32/2022

Collection of the resources and links I have found insightful and shared during week #32 of 2022.

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Ransomware attack on NHS systems could take weeks to fix, major IT provider warns

A cyberattack that hit a major IT provider for the NHS and severely affected the 111 service involved ransomware and could take up to four weeks to fix, it has emerged.

The attack had wide-ranging implications, affecting the system used to dispatch ambulances, book out-of-hours appointments and issue emergency prescriptions.

Ransomware attack on NHS systems could take weeks to fix, major IT provider warns

Researchers Find Vulnerability in Software Underlying Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Other Apps

Again at Black Hat — Security researchers presented their findings, detailing how they could have hacked people who use Discord, Microsoft Teams, and the chat app Element by exploiting the software underlying all of them: Electron, which is a framework built on the open source Chromium and the cross-platform javascript…