Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Google had an outage for about an hour this morning. I don’t recall having seen all services have a problem at the same time before. Hopefully we’ll hear from them about the cause. DHS, DOJ And DOD Are All Customers Of SolarWinds…
DetailsCitizen Lab finds surveillance tech that can find you with just a phone number. This may generate a new need and want for increased privacy, now that we know how many governments have been using this service to locate citizens, albeit unlawfully. It’s hard to keep a big botnet down: TrickBot sputters back toward full…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: This Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes. Just need a visible VIN number and about $300 in hardware as illustrated. Networking giant Belden says hackers accessed data on employees, business partners. To attackers, no giant is too big…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps. The trouble with free apps. The app makers must make revenue somewhere and selling data is lucrative. Windows 10: Microsoft reveals Pluton security chip – ‘Expect Patch Tuesday-type updates’. Microsoft promises Pluton…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Ticketmaster fined £1.25m over payment data breach. Ticketmaster had a breach in 2018 via a third-party chat bot on its site that exposed the credit card details of tens of thousands of customers. Schools Struggling to Stay Open Get Hit by Ransomware…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Apple patches iOS against 3 actively exploited 0-days found by Google. Probably the most important/urgent upgrade ever. Don’t wait for 14.2 upgrade, do it now. U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1 Billion in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road. Speculation kicked off…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Cops Turn to Canadian Phone-Tracking Firm After Infamous ‘Stingrays’ Become ‘Obsolete’. An interesting attribute of 5G is that legacy stingrays are no longer effective. European ransomware group strikes US hospital networks, analysts warn. “UNC1878 is one of most brazen, heartless and disruptive…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Trickbot—the for-hire botnet Microsoft attacked—is scrambling to stay alive. Good-ish news for once on this persistent tool so common in ransomware targets. They have a new functional server list, though, so egress control is still the #1 most effective mitigation strategy. Six…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: This new malware uses remote overlay attacks to hijack your bank account. In case it isn’t obvious, both the Remote Access Trojan and the malicious software installation is prevented 100% with zero trust controls. This high-profile eCrime group operates multiple ransomware families…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Attacks Aimed at Disrupting the Trickbot Botnet. It is worth noting, that DTTS (Don’t Talk To Strangers) *never* allows any Trickbot-infected computer to reach the authors’ controllers. IRS Use of Cell Phone Location Data Hits ‘Legal Gray Area’ (1). U.S. Customs and…
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