First, what are cookies? For those who don’t know, they are small text files, often encrypted, placed on your phone or computer by web sites so that they can track your actions. Cookies come in two flavors. FIRST PARTY cookies are cookies placed on your device by the website that you are visiting. THIRD PARTY […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Gives Up On Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) ASLR is a security technique that has been used for years to make it harder for hackers to FIND code in memory to compromise it. There is a problem in the rendering engine in the Chromium project that breaks ASLR and Google says that they won’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Starting from the beginning. DNS is the service that converts the web site address that you type in your browser like WWW.CNN.COM into the numbers, like 2a04:4e42:200::323:, that the Internet needs in order to connect you to that web site. DNS was invented because they didn’t think the web would be really popular if you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While there are plenty of private companies that were compromised by the SolarWinds attack, more importantly, many federal government departments and agencies including Treasury, State, the Nuclear Management folks, the FAA and others were compromised and information was stolen. Congress is getting into the act; we will see if anything positive happens or Congress loses […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last month, as Parler was being deplatformed by Amazon, it was hacked and many gigabytes of data were taken and later made public. In what seems like a sequel, right wing free speech social media platform Gab.com was hacked and, again, data was stolen and later published. It is reported that Gab is described as […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD Working on CMMC-Fedramp ‘Reciprocity’ by Year End CMMC, the DoD’s new cybersecurity standard is designed to measure security practices of companies and the servers in the computer rooms and data centers. But what about the stuff in the cloud. That is covered by another government standard called FedRAMP. But those two standards have different […]
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