Welcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: The hard truth about ransomware: we aren’t prepared, it’s a battle with new rules, and it hasn’t near reached peak impact. Kevin says “We are rebuilding entire economies around technology, while having some fundamental issues…
DetailsWelcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Hackers Breached Colonial Pipeline Using Compromised Password. According to Mandiant, it was a compromised password that started it all. This is just another reminder that we must be vigilant to protect everything we possibly can…
DetailsWelcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: It’s ransomware, or maybe a disk wiper, and it’s striking targets in Israel. This is actually a newly-discovered threat that SentinelOne dubbed Apostle. Apostle was at first a wiper but has become full-fledged ransomware. The…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Cyber insurance premiums rise as ransomware, hacks continue, GAO finds. Still haven’t reached peak cyber insecurity, apparently. Ransomware strikes AXA shortly after insurer announces it will stop covering extortion fees. The two events are not necessarily linked, but wow. Senators roll out…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Kevin’s Lame Review of May 2021’s Patch Tuesday, thread. This is a nice summary of the severity of a given patch Tuesday, especially in a day when it’s harder to determine what we need to pay attention to. Darkside Retreats to the…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: CISA Statement on the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Incident. This underscores the threat that ransomware poses to organizations regardless of size or sector. Severe vulnerabilities in Dell firmware update driver found and fixed. But who updates their Dell firmware? We obviously all should.…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature has arrived — here’s what you need to know. About time! While Apple likely has economic gains to win by this, it is a net positive for society. Law enforcement delivers final blow to Emotet. We hope…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Signal CEO Hacks Cellebrite iPhone Hacking Device Used By Cops. Cellebrite has quite a shady history, so it’s nice to see Moxie Marlinspike turn the tables in this way to shine a light. Facebook downplays data breach in internal email. Apparently they’ve…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: The Untold Story Of The SolarWinds Hack. It all started in September 2019 with a PoC to see if malicious actors could introduce one line of harmless code into production Orion software. FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks.…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Pwn2Own contest results are interesting. So is the $200,000 award given for a new Exchange Server vulnerability, while the world still hasn’t solved ProxyLogon. Feel free to check on our adamnet.io/exchange2019honeypot Windows and Linux devices are under attack by a new cryptomining worm. Easy…
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