In the wake of the cybersecurity disaster at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, where a contractor lost control of over 600 gigabytes of extremely sensitive weapons system data for the Sea Dragon program, the DoD is reacting. Sea Dragon, based on the few details we have, is a disruptive offensive weapon targeting Chinese submarines. Among […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A 24 year old South Carolina mom, Jamie Summitt, got a rather rude lesson in cyber security. She purchased a “smart” baby monitor that she could watch from her equally smart phone, only to wake up one day to find the baby monitor pointed at her. She didn’t think much about that until she watched […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Git, the software used by millions of software developers to manage their source code – the crown jewels of most corporations – is vulnerable to two different attacks. The first bug would allow a malicious attacker to overwrite code in folders where they should not be. The second bug allows an attacker to read arbitrary […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cisco has released an advisory that a half million consumer and small business routers and growing have been infected with malware dubbed VPNFilter. The malware was detected infecting routers from: Linksys MikroTik Netgear TP-Link and QNap storage devices The researchers have not figured out a test that a consumer or small business can use to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Does it Right Matt Green, the well known cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins said this about the encrypted messaging app Signal: “After reading the code, I literally discovered a line of drool running down my face. It’s really nice.” But even nice code isn’t perfect. Last Friday, researchers announced very serious bug in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what is likely no surprise to anyone who watches Washington and especially this administration, there seems to be a bit of confusion regarding cyber security policy. Is it any wonder, given that, that U.S. businesses are equally confused? Case in point – ZTE. ZTE is a Chinese electronics manufacturer with “close ties” to the […]
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