Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: FBI, DHS to go public with suspected North Korean hacking tools. This details activity from Hidden Cobra hackers and will benefit blue teams and defenders everywhere. Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Malicious Program to Gain Root on macOS Silently. Stick…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Zoom acquires Keybase to get end-to-end encryption expertise. Seems like a talent-acquisition/acqui-hire only by the accounts of Keybase. If so, sad for Keybase fans. Samsung patches 0-click vulnerability impacting all smartphones sold since 2014. This is significant. Anyone you love with a…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Attackers exploit 0-day code-execution flaw in the Sophos firewall. Such a critical lesson in this for *us* is to never have webadmin publicly exposed. Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years. Advanced hacker group seeded market with at least…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Hackers target oil producers as they struggle with a record glut of crude. Ministers plan to give more UK public bodies power to access phone data. Meanwhile, during the same week, Israel halts police phone tracking over privacy concerns. A single line of…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Microsoft April 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 15 critical flaws. For SecurityNow listeners, you already knew about a number of these over a week ago, and hopefully applied mitigation techniques. Ring 0 of fire: Does Riot Games’ new anti-cheat measure go…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: PayPal and Venmo Are Letting SIM Swappers Hijack Accounts. Use better MFA or use virtual numbers for SMS that aren’t hijackable. Apple and Google are launching a joint COVID-19 tracing tool for iOS and Android. Very interesting read and take and again…
DetailsCOVID-19 is hitting businesses hard. Many have been forced to scale back on employees and services. In a situation like this, we know how important your critical IT functions are to supporting your team while they work from home. Nerds On Site is open and ready with the Supplemental IT Services you need to equip…
DetailsHi Everyone, We hope this finds you well. We’re all of us in the middle of a fast & sweeping whirlwind. New health & safety measures are announced from our local and national governments daily – and sometimes hourly – to deal with COVID-19 (Coronavirus). As we each try to understand how it will affect…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Google offers and NSO group pitches to provide governments Coronavirus surveillance data. Privacy advocates are concerned. Android users, in particular, should be aware. This is not about whether you agree with stay-at-home or not, but how this will set the stage for our collective post-corona…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns. Note the mitigations available. Cybersecurity experts come together to fight coronavirus-related hacking. Good info published which we can use to protect clients better. HHS.gov Open Redirect Used by Coronavirus Phishing to Spread Malware.…
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