IBM’s security arm, X-Force, released their latest Cloud Security Threat Landscape report for Q2 2020 to Q2 2021. They said that two out of three breached cloud environments observed by them would likely have been prevented by more robust hardening of systems, such as better software security practices (called policies) and better patching. They also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security company Imperva says that almost all companies have internal databases with known vulnerabilities. The average vulnerable database has 26 publicly disclosed flaws. More than half of them are rated Critical or high severity. They collected this data over the past FIVE YEARS. While being internal does make it slightly harder for the hackers to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Provides Customer IP Address to Swiss Police While police all over the world complain about the universe going dark on them, that is only true to an extent. Proton maintains no logs, but they can capture data in real time. In this case they received an order from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I often say that the US Internet access ranks right up there with many third world countries. Now I have the data to prove it. Ookla, the company that makes and runs the SPEEDTEST software, reports every month on Internet speed around the world. This year, in the wired category (the kind you likely have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why care? Hackers often lurk inside networks for weeks or months. During this time they gather a lot of information about how the network works, what it looks like and even how it is secured. With people working from home, often on poorly maintained — scratch that — unmaintained networks, that job just became a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design have published details about BrakTooth, a new family of security vulnerabilities in Bluetooth software implementations. They assessed 13 Bluetooth devices from about a dozen vendors including Intel, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Cypress and found 16 vulnerabilities. On the good side, they can cause a denial of […]
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