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Security News for the Week Ending August 9, 2019

Researchers Hack WPA 3 Again The WiFi Alliance has always keep their documents secret.  The only way that you even get a copy of the specs is to become a member and that will cost you $5k-$20k a year, depending on your role. The same team that reported the bugs called Dragonblood found these new […]

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Security News for the Week Ending August 2, 2019

Capital One Breached – 100+ Million Applicants Compromised Among the data compromised are 140,000 US social security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers.  Also in the mix were one million Canadian social security numbers plus names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and incomes. The data included applicants who applied between 2005 and 2019.  Yes, 15 […]

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How Long Does It Take For a Public RDP Server to be Hacked

Even though we keep telling people not to enable Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) on Internet facing servers, a recent check showed there were still a million servers vulnerable. “In recent years, criminals deploying targeted ransomware like BitPaymer, Ryuk, Matrix, and SamSam have almost completely abandoned other methods of network ingress in favor of using […]

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Cloud Service Providers Are Not Immune from Ransomware

You moved your applications to the cloud.  Now you don’t have to worry about managing IT systems.  The headaches are someone else’s. Well sort of. Here is what customers of Quickbooks cloud hosting provider iNSYNNQ are seeing when they try to log on: This is what they have been seeing for the last three days. […]

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Phone Apps Collect User Data Even If You Deny Permissions

All smartphones are data collection machines; hopefully everyone understands that.  There are an amazing number of sensors on the device and many apps just ask for everything.  If the user grants that, then the app can harvest all that data and likely sell it, either individually or in the aggregate. Researchers took a tiny sample […]

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