Kate O'Flaherty
Security and Privacy Journalist at Freelance
Freelance Security & Privacy Journalist. Bylines: @guardian @WIRED @InfosecurityMag @ITPro @Assured_Intel @Forbes. [email protected]
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2 days ago |
itpro.com | Kate O'Flaherty
In July last year, security firm KnowBe4’s systems detected unusual activity on a recently-hired software engineer’s account. As the firm’s security team deepened their investigation, they began to suspect the threat was coming from a malicious insider, linked to a nation state. When the attacker went dark and began to manipulate session history files and execute unauthorized software, KnowBe4’s security team acted quickly, containing the device.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Kate O'Flaherty
2 hours ago'They are shooting a lot': voice notes from a Gaza hospital as war closes in - BBC News“They are shooting a lot. The tank has sieged the hospital.” Gunfire can be heard in the background of a hushed voice note sent in the middle of the night from inside al-Awda hospital, described by the World Health Organization last month as the “last functioning hospital in North Gaza”.
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1 week ago |
forbes.com | Kate O'Flaherty
What’s going on with ads in WhatsApp, what does it mean for your privacy and should you switch to ... More Signal instead? dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images “No ads, no games, no gimmicks.” This was the ethos of WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum. Yet 11 years after its acquisition by Meta, WhatsApp is finally doing what it said it’d never do — adverts inside the app.
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1 week ago |
itpro.com | Kate O'Flaherty
IT helpdesk scams are on the rise, with adversaries using increasingly sophisticated techniques to target users. The consequences for companies are significant, with fake IT helpdesks enabling attackers to quickly gain entry to firms’ systems to deploy malware and steal data. Threat actors know the value of tricking employees into falling for helpdesk scams.
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1 week ago |
forbes.com | Kate O'Flaherty
The U.S. government has issued a new warning to update your iPhone by July 7. Getty Images A new iOS 18 update warning has been issued by the U.S. government after an iPhone vulnerability was found to have been used in real-life attacks. Tracked as CVE-2025-43200, the flaw was fixed in iOS 18.3.1 back in Feb. alongside another already-exploited issue. At the time, this flaw was not listed on Apple’s support page, which only included one known fix.
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NEW: Apple will announce its biggest ever software rebrand at WWDC, tied to operating system redesigns. Apple is moving from version numbers to years (like Windows in the 90s). The new OSs: iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, visionOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26. https://t.co/bS4CksGkqW
