Freaking Ooops: Us Nuke Bunker Security Secrets On Public ‘Net Since 2013 Details of some US nuclear missile bunkers in Europe, including secret duress codewords have been exposed publicly on the Internet. Journalists discovered it by using simple search queries. The information was on training flashcards, which should not have been public. It includes “intricate […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While China is a serious threat and the last administration pushed on that hard, that administration ignored Russia. Today the National Security Agency, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agencies issued a joint alert titled Russian SVR Targets U.S. and Allied Networks. The NSA, FBI and CISA said that the Russian Foreign Intelligence […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China Bans Military and Government from using Teslas – Due to ‘Spying’ The WSJ is reporting that the Chinese government has restricted the use of Tesla vehicles near or in sensitive installations like military and government facilities. The theory is that the cameras on Teslas could be used for spying. Tesla, of course, denies that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD Working on CMMC-Fedramp ‘Reciprocity’ by Year End CMMC, the DoD’s new cybersecurity standard is designed to measure security practices of companies and the servers in the computer rooms and data centers. But what about the stuff in the cloud. That is covered by another government standard called FedRAMP. But those two standards have different […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Centurylink Routing Issues Lead to Massive Internet Outage Last Saturday night/Sunday morning, Centurylink had a bit of a problem, either taking down or severely impacting web site such as Cloudflare, Amazon, Steam, Twitter and many more. Just because a system was designed to stay operating in case of a nuclear attack does not mean that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Zip Slip Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects Researchers discovered a flaw in almost all zip-style file decompressors – RAR, TAR, 7ZIP-APK and others. The problem is caused by a very old attack vector called directory traversal that these libraries do not handle correctly. The decompressor libraries were likely downloaded from places like Github and Stack […]
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