Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Cyber war meets real war.

Israel Responds To Cyber Attack With Air Strike On Cyber Attackers In World First

And from Bruce Schneier and Wired.


Microsoft Releases Security Updates to Address Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Original release date: May 16, 2019

Microsoft has released ...

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Fallout, RIDL, ZombieLand, MDSUM and other MDS Vulnerabilities

Last year we covered the SPECTRE and MELTDOWN vulnerabilities that affected Intel processors.  This year security researchers have discovered a new series of vulnerabilities around the Microacrhitecture Data Sampling MDS process.  This vulnerability would allow an attacker to read data as it crossed the L1 and L2 data caches on the processor.   These vulnerabilities can affect cloud computing services, and be leveraged ...

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Cyber War is the Next Arms Race

Anyone who thinks were are not already at war in cyber-space is just not paying attention.  I have written extensively on the subject of cyber-war in this blog, most recently about the Estonian cyber-militia.  A list of those articles is below the video.

On April 22, 2019, Mikko Hypponen presented a keynote address titled The Next Arms Race.  A 58 minute video is included ...

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