Asus Was Not Alone I wrote about the Asus supply chain attack in March (search for Asus in the blog search box). Attackers, somehow, compromised the development environment, injected malware and allowed the system to compile, digitally sign and distribute it through the software update process. Hundreds of thousands of clients were infected as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SandboxEscaper Releases Yet Another Windows Zero-Day SandboxEscaper has it in for Microsoft. He or she has released over a half dozen zero-days including four of them just a couple of weeks ago. He or she has put Microsoft behind the power curve multiple times and now he or she is doing it again. This time […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]U.S. Trains UAE Spies to Spy on Americans Reuters has written an expose on how the State Department granted a U.S. Company an ITAR license to train UAE spies on hacking. The plan, which got out of control, what to constraint the UAE spies, but once they were trained, they fired their U.S. trainers and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Pulls Patches AGAIN After Some Computers Become Super Secure Users of Sophos and Avast, especially those running Windows 7 or Windows 8 – but not Windows 10 – got their computers bricked after this month’s update. Microsoft has had multiple update failures over the last 6 months, causing admins to wait a week or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A New Reason to Not Use Huawei 5G Telecom Equipment The President has been trying to get our allies to not use Huawei equipment in the buildout of their next generation cellular networks due to concerns that the Chinese government would compromise the equipment. Now the British spy agency GCHQ is saying that Huawei’s security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We’re From the Government and WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU! Well, not really. We don’t have to worry about the gov being hacked. They just give our information away. At least in this case there is no hard evidence that the data was misused. FEMA hired a contractor to help it find temporary housing for […]
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