As millions upon millions of IoT and Industrial IoT devices get deployed every month, we seem to have forgotten what we learned the hard way about our computers: if we don’t patch them, the hackers will invade. #1: A set of bugs called Urgent/11 affected a network module that has been around since the 90s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Solar Winds Software Compromised – Potentially 18,000 Enterprises Affected Last week FireEye filed a report with the SEC saying that they had been hacked – by Russia and not China – and that the hackers got away with FireEye’s entire suite of offensive hacking tools. This is not exactly what you would want your adversary […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers Hack Apple Successfully Between July and October, good-guy hackers worked on a side project to hack Apple. The results were impressive – if you are not Apple. 55 vulnerabilities found, 11 critical and 29 high. Apple paid the team a bug bounty of $288,000. The compromise would have exposed a lot of Apple’s internal […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have been ranting about Software Bills of Material or SBoM for a while. This week I have two examples of why this is important – even critical. The first story is about a TCP/IP network stack and the vulnerability is called Amnesia:33. It impacts four open source libraries – uIP, FNET, picoTCP and Nut/Net. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Israeli insurance company Shirbit was hit by a ransomware attack last week. The hackers demanded 50 Bitcoin within 24 hours. 50 Bitcoin is about a million dollars. When they didn’t do that, the hackers started leaking the company’s data and doubled the ransomware demand to 100 Bitcoin or about two million dollars. They said that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well sort of. China has joined the club of quantum computing capable countries and companies. Google and IBM were among the first members of that club and while we know that those two companies are evil (just kidding), we can assume that China has far more evil intentions in mind. Researchers from the University of […]
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