Mergers and acquisitions are a time to tread carefully. While all M&A teams review financials, sales projections, key personnel, etc., it is much less likely that the review includes examining the code base being acquired for vulnerabilities. That is probably not a good decision. Synopsys sells a service to review software during mergers and acquisitions […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]European Governments Want to be Able to Snoop on ALL of Our Communications As is usually the case, their excuse it that “it is to protect the children”. They want to break encryption while sprinkling magic fairy dust to not break encryption (an impossibility) in an effort to force kiddie porn traders (now called child […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As operating system vendors (Apple and Google) improve their security and make hacking their products more difficult, hackers are looking elsewhere for “ways in”. While users consider their phones a single computer, the reality is that there are whole bunch of computers under the hood. Processors for each radio in the phone such as the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Every now and then researchers or hackers discover a new class of bugs that spells trouble for a vendor. Apple is no exception. For a long time, when no one really cared about Apple, it looked like they were bulletproof. Not any more. This new bug, if exploited, could let a hacker to steal your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2022 security companies that track these attacks saw a rise in the number and sophistication of attacks on critical infrastructure. They also saw the introduction of a malware toolkit with plugins to attack tens of thousands of control systems across every industry. Responders discovered, not surprisingly, that the vast majority (more than 75%) of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitch streamers are notorious for going after other streamers. Not sure how that started, but it is a thing. Two weeks ago, Twitch streamer Brandon Ewing (aka Atrioc) was doing a live stream for his 318,000 followers and, supposedly, inadvertently showed his open browser tabs showing that he visited a website selling deep fake porn […]
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