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]Remember the Wannacry attack that basically took down the UK healthcare system and which CBS says will cost about $4 billion to mitigate? Well, a few medical experts with a bent towards hacking presented the results of a simulation they conducted regarding what would happen if local hospitals were hit by a coordinated malware attack. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I will start with the spoiler – it is not. Pentesters and hackers now have a new tool in their arsenal to defeat two factor authentication. The tool was just released at the security conference Hack-In-The-Box and is now available on Github. Hackers had to get creative in order to attack web sites that were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N Acting budget director Russel Vought is seeking to delay the ban of Huawei for another two years (or for a total of four years after the ban was enacted). If they are a risk to national security, is it okay to compromise national security for two more years? […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]More Information on the Baltimore Cyberattack Baltimore estimates that it will wind up spending $18 million to recover from the cyberattack – which is why many organization just pay the ransom. The attackers only wanted $103,000 or less than 1 percent of what they are going to spend. Of course, if an organization does that, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The security of all computers is dependent on three things: The Hardware The Operating System The Apps When it comes to the iPhone, Apple does a great job of making sure the hardware is secure. The Secure Enclave is the best in the industry and Apple spends a lot of money testing their hardware. The […]
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