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Security News for the Week Ending July 1, 2022

Russia Cyber Attacks Lithuania After Gov Refuses to Let Russian Coal, Steel Trains Through Apparently Russia couldn’t figure out a way to do any real damage, so they launched a denial of service attack against a bunch of Lithuanian web sites.. This includes the state tax inspector, migration department and secure national data network. The […]

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Security News for the Week Ending June 10, 2022

Anonymous Seems to be doing Better Against Russia than Past Efforts Anonymous, the hacking collective, historically has made claims about how effective they are that have not panned out. However, against Russia, they seem to be pretty effective. Whether that means that they are more focused now or instead, that Russia’s defenses are not very […]

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Security News for the Week Ending June 3, 2022

FBI Warns US Colleges of Widespread VPN Credential Leaks – On Russian Crime Forums Here’s a shocker. Cybersecurity practices at US colleges and universities are not so good. According to an FBI PIN (Color WHITE, general distribution), Russian cybercrime forums are offering network and VPN credentials for sale for many US higher education institutions, some […]

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What Does Remote Bricking of Ukrainian Tractors Mean to US Farmers?

When Russian troops stole millions of dollars of John Deere farm equipment from an authorized Deere dealer, Agrotek-Invest, in Melitopol, Ukraine, they trailered them to Checknya, about 700 miles away. What the Russians did not know is that (a) the equipment has a GPS in it, so Deere knew exactly where they took it and […]

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Security News for the Week Ending May 27, 2022

Yet Another Russian Military “Asset” Catches Fire Russian jet engine design hub Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute which is outside Moscow, did a “halt and catch fire” due to a fire at the electrical substation which powered the former design center. Score one for Ukraine, according to Russia. Russia claims it is the world’s largest scientific research […]

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Security News for the Week Ending May 20, 2022

Flaw in uClibc Allows DNS Poisoning Attacks A flaw in all versions of the popular C standard libraries uClibc and uClibc-ng can allow for DNS poisoning attacks against target devices. The library is likely used in milliosn of Internet of Things devices that will never be patched and will always be vulnerable. This is where […]

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