Items tagged with security
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Nathan Ord - Fri, Feb 02, 2024
USB malware drops have been around forever, and as always, we do not recommend you randomly plug in a flash drive you find out in the wild. However, this initial access method is still working for threat actors, which is what researchers...
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Nathan Ord - Thu, Feb 01, 2024
If you haven't noticed, it seems like there's an ongoing campaign of negative news surrounding AI and large language models. Between AI leading to coal plants staying open and companies developing murder AI drones, it’s looking pretty...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Jan 31, 2024
Cybersecurity might be all the rage right now, with a plethora of people looking to break into it from previous careers or fresh out of college. Regardless of the circumstances, the industry might not be all that it is chalked up to be all...
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Nathan Ord - Tue, Jan 30, 2024
Power management and industrial automation company Schneider Electric (SE) was hit by a ransomware attack this month. With disclosures about the incident becoming available, it would indicate that while this was an isolated attack on SE...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Jan 29, 2024
It's sort of a sad state of things that your smartphone is almost assuredly tracking your every action and movement, and then sending that data to nebulous remote services. Perhaps that's not surprising to, but this really shouldn't be the...
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Nathan Ord - Thu, Jan 25, 2024
Having your phone stolen is not just a hassle but can also lead to the compromise of your identity, finances, loss of cherished photos and videos, and access to your digital existence online. While there are many steps that you can take to...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Jan 25, 2024
An 18-year old British university student got himself in hot water over a bomb joke at a London airport and is now possibly facing expensive fines in Spanish court for the unnecessary hoax.
In July 2022, Aditya Verma with some friends...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Jan 23, 2024
A massive leak of 26 billion personal records has been exposed by a cybersecurity research team. Big sites and government organization sites like Deezer, Tencent, and Adobe haven't been spared, and we have both bad news and good...
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Nathan Ord - Sat, Jan 20, 2024
When it comes to security breaches, traditionally we expect that it is a company with poor security practices or simply struggling to keep up in the never-ending onslaught of threats online. However, the latest breach suffered by Microsoft...
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Nathan Ord - Thu, Jan 18, 2024
Botnet activities are usually sniffed out and found fairly routinely, but it seems that a previously unknown cybercrime gang named Bigpanzi has been laying low and getting away with it. New reports suggest that this gang has amassed a...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Jan 17, 2024
This week, researchers have publicly disclosed nine security vulnerabilities affecting devices that use TianoCore’s EDK II, an open-source reference UEFI implementation. While this may sound like super technical speak, these...
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Nathan Ord - Tue, Jan 16, 2024
Windows has had some recent security issues, but Microsoft has gnerally been good about offering critical fixes. A problem comes when people don't actually apply those fixes to make their systems more secure. As such, TrendMicro has...
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Nathan Ord - Mon, Jan 15, 2024
Simply put, the Internet of Things is cool, but it's cooler still when configured correctly and built with security in mind. Unfortunately, that almost never happens. A much more likely story is something like what happened to Johnie on...
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Nathan Ord - Sun, Jan 14, 2024
In 2021 the Framework laptop hit the market, revolutionizing the standard laptop model from being a one-and-done sort of deal to an upgradable and modular experience. Since then, the brand has expanded quite a bit. With several releases...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Jan 12, 2024
ASUS is unveiling the RT-AX57 Go, a portable tri-mode router that delivers some serious features despite its small size. Because it’s meant to be taken on the road it has the ability to connect to 4G and 5G mobile networks alongside WISPs...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Jan 10, 2024
Early in January, Bitcoin saw a healthy spike up to $45,000 following some excitement surrounding Bitcoin exchange-traded-funds. This trend has continued with some ups and downs in the middle, but regardless, people have been rather...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Jan 06, 2024
For millions of Chrome browser users, third-party tracking cookies are no longer part of the deal while surfing the internet. That's because Google has finally begun implementing its plan to phase out third-party cookies, albeit initially...
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Nathan Ord - Thu, Jan 04, 2024
In December of last year, genetic testing company 23andMe suffered a significant data breach. Since then, the company has been dealing with the fallout, which includes several class action lawsuits from customers whose data was...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Jan 04, 2024
Apple is currently working on the successor to iOS 17.2, which promises some great new features. However, the Cupertino-based company must first solve an issue that was incurred by early adopters of the second beta releases for iOS 17.3...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Jan 03, 2024
Password managers are not perfect. Recently, LastPass was blamed for millions in stolen neing crypto and KeePass is downplaying password database theft. Bitwarden may ne next to catch some flak. It turns out a penetration test discovered...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Jan 03, 2024
As we closed out 2023, the world of cybersecurity settled just a touch as threat actors and defenders went off to celebrate the holiday in a seemingly unspoken Christmas truce. Nothing good can last forever, though, as the Cybersecurity...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Dec 29, 2023
Downfall, a standalone steam mod for the popular Slay the Spire game, got hit with a security breach on Christmas day. An attacker replaced the legitimate game download with a malicious one, which was available to users on Steam’s library...
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