Welcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Warning: Update Chrome Now As Hackers Attack Two Major Vulnerabilities In Google Browser. Might be a good time to use Brave instead as an alternate browser for better privacy and better security while maintaining compatibility…
DetailsWelcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America. This pressure on C-level executives is very real that culpability may be exposed. The best possible outcome from this will be a collective determination to act more…
DetailsWelcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: New Malware Uses Novel Fileless Technique to Evade Detection. Since most malware detection or endpoint security relies on content being written to disk, the malware can just avoid that altogether. FBI warns of ‘large increase’…
DetailsWelcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: FBI Shares Hive Ransomware IoCs in New Alert. We are starting to see a trend where early visibility into indicators of compromise are shared and this is good. Now, if you’ve already been living in…
DetailsWelcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People. Breached again. Sigh. Keep an eye on your credit bureau file. Another critical IoT vulnerability (CISA warning) leaves baby monitors and other tech vulnerable (Mandiant blog). Network segmentation…
DetailsWelcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: You’re doing IoT RNG (wrong). When a basic building block of security (RNG) is insecure, the house of cards is weaker than we thought. INFRA:HALT’s 14 new vulnerabilities in common IoT network stack, making many IoT devices…
DetailsWelcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: The privacy battle Apple isn’t fighting. For at least a decade, privacy advocates dreamed of a universal, legally enforceable “do not track” setting. So why isn’t Apple helping its customers take advantage of it? This…
DetailsWelcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: PunkSpider—the Search Engine for Web Exploits—Rises From the Dead. This controversial service is an interesting renewed approach in shaming public-facing websites. Iran’s Secret Cyber Files. The very existence of this type of reporting must raise…
DetailsWelcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Kaseya obtains REvil decryptor, starts customer data recovery operations. Remote management software vendor Kaseya said today it obtained a universal decryptor for the REvil ransomware. Meanwhile, REvil vanishes. Chinese government recruiting criminal hackers to attack Western…
DetailsWelcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Recent Attacks Lead to Renewed Calls for Banning Ransom Payments. If this happens, it will be a hard pill to swallow, but business owners will have no choice but to strengthen their defences to avoid…
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