A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
A hoax about ransomware called “WannaCrypt” has been widely spammed out. But is an attack of this sort technically possible?
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The S in HTTPS stands for Secure, so does the S in IoT. The stuffed toys are stuffed with security problems that we’ve known about for over a ...
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IoT or the Internet of Things has been to this point a seriously unsecured cluster-flop for the most part. Millions of insecure devices are in our homes and businesses, and these devices may be eavesdropped, recording audio or video, performing a DDoS attack, or being leveraged as an easy access pivot point into your network for further exploitation
Thankfully, progress is being made in ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.WordPress will be 15 years old this May 27th, 2018! On Sunday, May 27th, we’re planning a global event celebrating the WordPress 15th Anniversary with WordPress community groups around the world.
Researchers have shown how attackers could trick ...
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If you or someone you know uses a pacemaker from Abbot or St Jude Medical, there is a firmware upgrade waiting for you at your next check-up. Or even sooner, depending on what you and your doctor decide. This upgrade closes a security hole that could allow an unauthorized person or attacker to change programming on the pacemaker. This ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.This entry was posted in WordPress Security on May 2, 2018 by Mark Maunder
Although there is nothing to worry about, you may want to ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Sometime around April 3—give or take about a week—China’s 9.5-ton Tiangong-1 space station will fall out of orbit and enter Earth’s atmosphere. While media reports for the last few months have hyped the “uncontrolled” de-orbit as ...
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I recently read an article from Heimdal Security about online safety. In this article Heimdal had asked 18 experts in the field of cybersecurity for their top 3 ideas about how to stay secure. The contributors included top cybersecurity professionals from several anti-malware companies, security bloggers, and cybersecurity industry professionals. The original article is here.
What I found interesting were the ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Researchers say Mi-Cam is easy to hijack: turn it off to keep the kids from being eyeballed by prying eyes or chatted up by strangers.