A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. As this article coincides with the all out sales fest of Black Friday, I thought I would highlight a number of articles along this theme to remind everyone that while shopping online can be fun, it can also contain traps for the unwary…
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Quite an interesting stream of news this week, however, my choices this week focus on threat management. The first one, and its quite alarming and not at all funny, shows an example of someone didn’t accept reasonable proof of account ownership for a password reset – something many of us face with public websites.
Working with a wide variety of customers and technologies often brings interesting challenges and stories that usually end up buried in a support ticket never to see the light of day again. However, after a curious ticket regarding integration of our product into a BitBucket pipeline, we asked WeTek if they would like to contribute an article about this particular problem. Well, here it is, a great article highlighting the subtleties that can trip us up!
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Big news out this week of a serious chained fault on WordPress. If you are running WooCommerce then you had better dive in and check this article to make sure you are not exposed.
Throughout my years working with Unix flavoured environments, one of the headaches I’ve had to deal with is cron. Don’t get me wrong, I love cron, it’s a necessity for any operation of such servers, however, there usually comes a point when the size of list reaches a critical mass that makes visualising the execution times a challenge.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Another week of quite astounding news, and I will lead with a really interesting story from a side where many of us don’t get to tread (perhaps thankfully), though his closing question is very disconcerting…
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. A plethora of choice this week to pick three items of interest… Where to start… OK, first is this very odd fiasco over the Bloomberg story about Super Micro. So much seems wrong, but why are they sticking to it?
My mobile phone tells me my doorbell is ringing. Sweet. Of course I can hear the doorbell, but that’s not the point is it? Do I need my microwave oven to tell me by text something is cooked? No. Not sure if I can trust it that far, and of course I need to put the food in to start with so I know it won’t take long. I’m also hungry and eager to eat so I’m not going to wander off – certainly not to the shops for half and hour.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Some very exciting news, well I say exciting, its more like we’ve made a step forward in regards to IoT security at long last. Hopefully more will come on board and in time others will see the benefit.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Development frameworks are wonderful, can’t disagree there, they do make life easier by taking away tedious process. Obviously their increased complexity in hiding this tedium from the dev means debugging can be tricky at times. So they often included some quite revealing debug modes that can help…. Only that they really are for the eyes of the dev and not the public.
