We’re pleased to be partnering with Cisco for this blog. Scroll down to download the Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report Ask any cybersecurity professional and most will agree that a large percentage of modern technology was developed without a ‘security first’ mindset. That is, companies work to ship
Read more →#cryptocurrency Sure, everyone loves a funny cat video, but if you receive a video file (packed in zip archive) sent by someone through Facebook messenger, think twice before opening it. That video may just be a cryptocurrency mining bot. Discovered by researchers from security firm Trend Micro, this new
Read more →#emergencypatch Looks like someone took a bite out of Apple. The macOS High Sierra was discovered to contain a bug where anyone with physical access to a computer running the latest version could bypass the secure login simply by putting “root” in the username field. Developer Lemi
Read more →#wikileaks Just when the world thought Wikileaks might just stop dripping, the whistle-blower forum resumed their old ways, this time releasing source code and analysis of CIA hacking tools dubbed ‘Vault 8.’ You may recall that beginning in March of last year, Wikileaks began releasing formerly confidential CIA
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Internet of things is currently one of the best technologies available to mankind. It is really helpful in reshaping the world and its future. Many Tech-giants are even moving into this field, whereas many start-ups are growing up making IoT their agenda. Everyone is thinking about making
Read more →#wikileaks Wikileaks is in the news for more reasons than 1 this week. As expected, they’ve added another hacking tool to the growing list of Vault 7 leaks. The latest, ‘AngelFire’ is a Windows hacking tool used to gain persistent remote access. But, prior to that leak,
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The Internet of unsafe things, aka IoT (Internet of Things), will bring problems to many users of this unnecessary technology. I see the point of IoT in an industry, in production, medicine, etc. etc., it’s really good technology, and a revolutionary one, but to connect a coffee
Read more →#diversity This year marks the 20th anniversary of the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas and quite appropriately in our digital age, the keynote was given by Facebook’s CSO, Alex Stamos. Stamos’ briefing covered defensive security research and took a somewhat unexpected turn to discuss empathy and
Read more →#heist Hide yo kids, hide yo cryptocurrency. It’s been 2 weeks since we last reported on the Bithumb hack where over $1M USD in Bitcoin and Ethereum were stolen, but since that initial heist, there are two additional hacks to report. A hacker who remains unknown has stolen
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The Mirai botnet was responsible for the October 2016 attack that brought down much of our internet. The victim was Dyn, a company that provides DNS service. Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) caused the outage, and up to 100,000 malicious endpoints were used for the attack.
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