Everything on the video call—PowerPoint slides, passwords, and that new haircut included—is about to get a little more protection.

Microsoft announced in a recent “roadmap” update that it will deploy a “prevent screen capture” feature in its Teams communication platform.

When a user attempts to take a screenshot, the post says, a proposed mechanism, set for rollout in July, will go Sopranos finale and abruptly turn a meeting window to black.

While security pros who spoke with IT Brew haven’t seen too many real-life scenarios connecting screen captures to data loss, they shared their theories about what security threats might be driving Microsoft’s screen-capture block.

Making deepfakes more difficult.—BH

Time to file.

That’s how lawyers across the country are responding to a breach at cryptocurrency platform Coinbase, which the company reported on May 15. That breach, Coinbase said in a blog post, was the result of platform insiders who “abused their access to customer support systems to steal the account data for a small subset of customers.”

Though the breach didn’t involve the theft of information related to logins, keys, or funds, Coinbase said the perpetrators did obtain some personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and partial Social Security numbers.

Tactical matters. Coinbase attackers took a strategic approach, recruiting overseas customer support and bribing them to copy customer information, allegedly to “gather a customer list they could contact, while pretending to be Coinbase—tricking people into handing over their crypto,” according to the company.

“They then tried to extort Coinbase for $20 million to cover this up,” Coinbase wrote. “We said no.”

For more on the lawsuits, keep reading here.—EH

Of all the things we’ve lost, we miss the company devices the most.

Well, that’s probably not true for most people. Bring your own device (BYOD) has exploded in popularity over the past decade, a change accelerated by remote work and the Covid-19 pandemic.

But some companies may well be missing the aspect of control they had over staff—at least when it came to security. While many organizations have warmed to the idea that staffers do better with their own devices, the complications of an added threat surface remain. For Apple users, who have long been insulated from the worst of attacks when compared to their PC-using counterparts, that has meant a shift in threats in recent years.

On April 29, Oligo Security revealed they had uncovered 23 vulnerabilities, leading to 17 CVEs, related to Apple’s AirPlay and AirPlay Software Development kit that could potentially affect millions of devices; consequences of the exposures include taking control of devices and the implementation of spyware. And with the increase in BYOD, Apple devices are open to attacks that users often aren’t prepared for.

Keep reading for more on the security strategy.—EH