Well, maybe better is not the right word. Quick catch up for those of you who are not following this. The Russians hacked the software update process for the high end network management software called Orion from Solar Winds. This software is typically used by large enterprises and government agencies. This hack gave them access […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As millions upon millions of IoT and Industrial IoT devices get deployed every month, we seem to have forgotten what we learned the hard way about our computers: if we don’t patch them, the hackers will invade. #1: A set of bugs called Urgent/11 affected a network module that has been around since the 90s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Solar Winds Software Compromised – Potentially 18,000 Enterprises Affected Last week FireEye filed a report with the SEC saying that they had been hacked – by Russia and not China – and that the hackers got away with FireEye’s entire suite of offensive hacking tools. This is not exactly what you would want your adversary […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers Hack Apple Successfully Between July and October, good-guy hackers worked on a side project to hack Apple. The results were impressive – if you are not Apple. 55 vulnerabilities found, 11 critical and 29 high. Apple paid the team a bug bounty of $288,000. The compromise would have exposed a lot of Apple’s internal […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Amazon added a new feature, very quietly (I wonder why – not) last year to some Ring products and some Echo products. Amazon Sidewalk takes some of your Internet bandwidth (a small amount) and lets your Ring/Echo enabled neighbors use it in case their Internet goes down (and vice versa). What could possibly go wrong. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apparently Walmart has been selling an affordable Jetstream router. Affordable, apparently, because it has a back door in it that would allow hackers to not only control the router, but also all of the computers on your network. But Walmart is not alone. Wavlink routers sold on Amazon also have back doors. In this case […]
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