Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped. This story is still developing, but it’s great news this was detected this early before any payloads were run. ‘Antivirus is dead’: The rising enterprise security threats for 2021 and how to…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Hackers try to poison Florida town’s water supply after computer breach. Bioterrorism is here. We can and need to start being more proactive on our food and water supply chains. How a supply chain attack let one researcher hack into Apple, Microsoft…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Ziggy ransomware shuts down and releases victims’ decryption keys. Way to start Monday with some good news. These ransomware authors are afraid their crime will catch up with them so they’ve apologized publicly and released the keys. Hackers post detailed patient medical…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS MALWARE EMOTET DISRUPTED THROUGH GLOBAL ACTION. This is a feel-good moment, when the Command & Control system itself is taken over by law enforcement, and then used to disinfect itself. North Korea targets — and dupes — a slew…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Phishing email attacks targeting remote workers on the rise. This isn’t really a surprise since that’s where security is weakest. Malwarebytes hit by hackers implicated in SolarWinds breach. Their own reporting, but originally disclosed in a tweet by @mkleczynski. SonicWall’s internal network hacked…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Children’s Screen Time Has Soared in the Pandemic, Alarming Parents and Researchers. Strict parents have it difficult now, lenient parents, well, read the research… Larger CyberBunker investigation yields shutdown of DarkMarket. Reminds us of previous large dark web markets a la Silk…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Telegram feature exposes your precise address to hackers. Telegram, the not-so-secure messaging app, has a vulnerability that exposes users’ precise geolocation — but Telegram has no plans to fix it. I know fleeing WhatsApp users are looking for a better home, but…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: First thing’s first, at the start of this year, WTH NerdNews is renamed to TWINN for This Week In Nerd News. The focus is still in 5 mins or less to get up to speed with the most important stories and events of…
DetailsLast one this year… enjoy! Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: SOLARWINDS HACK INFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING POWER INDUSTRY. At least 15 critical infrastructure firms in the electric, oil, and manufacturing industries were running the backdoored SolarWinds Orion software (per @kimzetter). Suspected Russian hackers used Microsoft vendors to…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Dozens of journalists’ iPhones hacked with NSO ‘zero-click’ spyware, says Citizen Lab. I know this is starting to sound like it’s the same song over and over. Same with the mitigation. Effective egress control is the only mitigation. Microsoft is reportedly added…
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