Your 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…
DetailsYour 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…
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