I had a monster session of updating stuff yesterday. This is why…: A new family of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities has been found in Intel CPUs and researchers and vendors are […]
Interesting approach to extortion. Tweetortion?…: […] Researchers at Armor who have been investigating the so-called Robbinhood ransomware malware used in the attack on the city discovered the post. They say it […]
Time to think about your Bluetooth strategy. On by default, or off by default?…: ScarCruft, an advanced persistent threat group known for attacking organizations with links to the Korean peninsula, […]
As the row over sanctions on Iran rumbles on, this…: Rana targets airline companies and others in well-planned, well-researched attacks, Israel’s ClearSky says. Newly leaked documents purportedly about a hitherto […]
Do unto others…and they’ll do it back to you…: […] Buckeye’s study and development of the Equation Group tools is not actually surprising, says Eric Chien, technical director at Symantec, […]
There’s no good reason why a normal user should have admin privileges. Admins should only use admin accounts as and when needed…: A new analysis of Microsoft’s security updates in […]
EternalBlue is the (NSA) gift that keeps on giving…: […] In a blog post by the Security Response Attack Investigation Team at Symantec, researchers note that Beapy is continuing a tactic […]
Using Adobe products in your online services? Probably not a good idea…: […] RiskSense’s study found that a total of 2,891 vulnerabilities were reported in Adobe products between 1996 and the end […]
You might be blocking access to file sharing services like Dropbox but criminals have found other ways to deliver payloads. Time to review what you allow access to?…: Cybercriminals have […]
Make sure you’re patched. These vulnerabilities are being actively exploited…: […] Kaspersky Lab found CVE-2019-0859 last month when their automatic exploit prevention systems detected an attempt to abuse a Windows […]