As if Yahoo didn’t have enough trouble, it apparently was using a third party software library called ImageMagick which had a serious security bug in it. The library which is used to manipulate images is very widely used. Or at least, it was. Some people say that it has not aged well. Security researcher Chris […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2013 Booz employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden flew to Hong Kong after leaking huge quantities of highly classified NSA documents, proving that even the NSA is challenged to keep secrets under wraps. Those documents are still being dribbled out today. Earlier this year, when the FBI was trying to track down the Shadow […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For years we have been worrying about whether the apps (or applications) that we use are secure. Now we have to worry about whether the back end servers that our apps talk to are secure. You may remember that recently hackers discovered thousands of Mongo database servers that had no Admin password and created a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For a long time I have said that there are multiple forms of ransomware such as: The hacker encrypts your computer and gives you the decryption key if you pay the ransom. The hacker encrypts your computer and DOES NOT give you the decryption key when you pay the ransom. The hacker PRETENDS to encrypt […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FTC recently did an experiment to see how quickly thieves used stolen data after it was posted on the dark web. They created 100 fictitious consumers and gave them credit cards or bitcoin wallets. Each fictitious consumer had a name, email and passwords as well. They posted the data twice – first on April […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who are not familiar with the OWASP Top 10, it is a great set of vulnerabilities to check your web application for. If your software QA team, in addition to the normal functional stuff that they check for can also check for these exposures, that will likely catch a number of […]
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