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Are We About to See Another Log4j?

This one is called LINGUISTIC LUMBERJACK. Fluent Bit is a very widely used open source logging package in the cloud. It is used by all major cloud providers. It has been downloaded over 3 billion times just in 2022. Fluent Bit is described as “a lightweight, open-source data collector and processor” which collecting and processing […]

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Open Source Maintainers Under Attack

There are folks who say that open source is safer than commercial software because, well, it is open source. Their theory is that since, technically, anyone can look at the source (ignoring the fact that you would need to be a trained programmer in whatever language that software is written in and have the time […]

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Security News for the Week Ending January 14, 2022

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 […]

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Security News for the Week Ending January 29, 2021

Adult Web Site Hacked; 2 Million Records Leaked Most visitors to adult web sites do not want to be “outed”, but that is exactly what happened to 2 million customers of MyFreeCams. While the data stolen (username, email, UNENCRYPTED passwords and account balance) is not that sensitive, the fact that someone has an account there […]

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Weekly Security News for the Week Ending March 20, 2020

Senate Kicks the Can Down The Road Again With FISA Renewal Last week it looked like Congress was going to renew the parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that DID EXPIRE last weekend.  But Congress being Congress, they didn’t.  On Monday the Senate agreed to kick the can down the  road for 77  days.  […]

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