Law enforcement has been trying since at least the 1990’s when they jailed and tried to convict Phil Zimmerman for creating an open source encryption program called PGP, to put the encryption genie back in the bottle. The problem is that encryption is math and math doesn’t care about politics. If some governments were to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers Sending Malware Filled USB Sticks in the Mail Old, tried and true techniques continue to work as hackers have been sending malware-filled USB sticks in the mail and UPS to defense, transportation and insurance companies, hoping someone did not do their security awareness training and plugs the drive into their computer. It just shows […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Actually, they just used New York as an example, but the researchers literally melted the copper power lines. Once the power lines were vaporized, well, there was no more power. The good news is that this was just a demonstration, but definitely a scary one. Worse yet. The device the team hacked – it was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As hackers become smarter, generate more and more effective attacks and users continue to work from almost anywhere, IT teams have to get smarter about effective endpoint security. This is going to take a layered approach. This includes moving towards zero-trust. Here are some recommendations. Signature and heuristic-based detection – this is what most traditional […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Senator Chris Van Hollen (Maryland) wrote a letter to Commerce Secretary Raimondo asking what she planned to do about this security vulnerability – the first we are hearing about it. Raimondo could ban the equipment, just like equipment made by Huawai and others. Chinese electronics maker Yealink is not a household word like Huawei, but […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Don’t Copy-Paste Commands from a Web Page – You can Get Hacked People often copy-paste data from a website into some other place like a command prompt or another browser window, but a researcher has demonstrated how a malicious website could change the data in the paste buffer, causing you to execute something that you […]
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