A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. What a week of news this has been, more MageCart, a few large take downs, and some surprising breaches. We start with a first, the first ‘hack’ from space.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. While we marvel at the sophisticated attacks, as with most crime, it’s the simple tricks while people have their guard down that get through. Here is a wonderful little article by the folks at SANS on one such example, yes, for most of us we might spot an obvious faked URL but for others or if we’re not paying enough attention one tap and its game over.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Such an amazing choice of juicy news articles this week! I will skip the seriously weird and rapidly escalating circumstances of the Capital One breach, and instead dive into the some of the more low key, but nevertheless interesting items. First up, and for those of you who post infosec articles, something you will understand: stock photos.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Social media take-overs can be quite disastrous, and a recent UK law inforcement breach certainly caused a lot of embarrassment.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Going for a theme this week and ignoring the NAS devices spewing data and amusingly named new malware. The theme is Bluetooth.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. And Magecart is back…. In a big way too. Need to watch out even if you don’t have Magento as their new approach could just leave the dodgy JS all over the place.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Well, I hope everyone’s recovered from the annoying network outages this week. I’m not going to talk about that, instead here is something to bring other annoyances: How UI done badly can be really bad… People are people, and while there are often oversights in locking down systems, they often still fall prey to moments of madness which starts a chain towards disaster.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Here we are again, another week and another S3 leak. I really don’t understand how this keeps happening. Either its sloppy admin or people with no technical (or security) understanding is being let loose on a complex cloud service – both are not great. You would hope that when you call in experts to help with a problem, you are dealing with someone responsible.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For no other reason that I have an annual battle with squirrels during harvesting from my hazel nut trees, that I go with this line: Beware the squirrel!
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Privacy is understandably a concern for all, and for those that are not that bothered and opt-in to give it away, I’m sure they assume it is for monitoring of their activities online. However, in this enterprising case, it appears to go beyond the virtual to physical and not where you would suspect…
