Categories Tech Pegasus: What Is the Israeli Spyware and How Can You Tell If It’s on Your Phone? Post author By B Smalls Post date July 19, 2021 No Comments on Pegasus: What Is the Israeli Spyware and How Can You Tell If It’s on Your Phone? Military-grade spyware Pegasus, used to infiltrate the smartphones of at least 40 journalists in India, has been around since at least 2016 and is one of the most sophisticated hacking tools capable of extracting information from mobile devices.
Categories Tech Microsoft Confirms ‘PrintNightmare’ is New Windows Security Flaw Post author By B Smalls Post date July 3, 2021 No Comments on Microsoft Confirms ‘PrintNightmare’ is New Windows Security Flaw Microsoft late Thursday acknowledged a severe security vulnerability in the Print Spooler utility that ships by default on Windows and warned that the bug exposes users to computer takeover attacks.
Categories Tech Malicious PDFs Flood the Web, Lead to Password-Snarfing Post author By B Smalls Post date June 16, 2021 No Comments on Malicious PDFs Flood the Web, Lead to Password-Snarfing SolarMarker makers are using SEO poisoning, stuffing thousands of PDFs with tens of thousands of pages full of SEO keywords & links to redirect to the malware.
Categories Tech Ten-Year Old Sudo Vulnerability Gives Root Privileges on Host Post author By B Smalls Post date January 27, 2021 No Comments on Ten-Year Old Sudo Vulnerability Gives Root Privileges on Host A major security hole in the Sudo utility could be abused by unprivileged users to gain root privileges on the vulnerable host, Qualys reports.
Categories Tech Hackers breached U.S. government agencies via compromised SolarWinds Orion software Post author By B Smalls Post date December 14, 2020 No Comments on Hackers breached U.S. government agencies via compromised SolarWinds Orion software A “highly sophisticated” hacking group has breached the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), other government agencies and private sector companies (including, apparently, FireEye) via compromised SolarWinds Orion software.
Categories Tech FireEye hack: Cybersecurity firm says nation-state stole attacking tools Post author By B Smalls Post date December 8, 2020 No Comments on FireEye hack: Cybersecurity firm says nation-state stole attacking tools “This attack is different from the tens of thousands of incidents we have responded to throughout the years,” the firm says in an SEC filing.
Categories Tech Website Security Breach Exposes 1 Million DNA Profiles Post author By B Smalls Post date July 24, 2020 No Comments on Website Security Breach Exposes 1 Million DNA Profiles A genealogy website used to catch one of California’s most wanted serial killers remained shut down Thursday after a security breach exposed the DNA profiles of more than a million people to law enforcement agencies.
Categories Tech Critical, Wormable Bug in Windows DNS Servers Could Allow Full Infrastructure Compromise Post author By B Smalls Post date July 15, 2020 No Comments on Critical, Wormable Bug in Windows DNS Servers Could Allow Full Infrastructure Compromise Exploitation Would Grant Attacker Domain Administrator Rights That Could Compromise Entire Corporate Infrastructure
Categories Tech Work From Home Opens New Remote Insider Threats Post author By B Smalls Post date June 23, 2020 No Comments on Work From Home Opens New Remote Insider Threats Remote work is opening up new insider threats – whether it’s negligence or malicious employees – and companies are scrambling to stay on top of these unprecedented risks.
Categories Tech NSA Publishes Recommendations on Securing IPsec VPNs Post author By B Smalls Post date June 6, 2020 No Comments on NSA Publishes Recommendations on Securing IPsec VPNs The National Security Agency (NSA) has published a series of recommendations on how to properly configure IP Security (IPsec) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).
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