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The REvil ransomware gang continues its destructive trek around the globe, routing out and exploiting vulnerabilities at (often) high-profile targets. One of their latest victims is nearly 50-year-old UK clothing retailer French Connection whose in-yo… Continue reading REvil Hits French Connection, Grupo Fleury
Because tech vendors have turned to over-the-air updates – the idea is to not give their customers any excuses for not keeping firmware current – Eclypsium’s discovery of a chain of four vulnerabilities in the BIOSConnect feature within Dell Client BI… Continue reading Dell BIOSConnect Flaws Show Over-the-Air Risks
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides advice to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé addresses a reader’s desire to speak at conferences and o… Continue reading Ask Chloé: Public Speaking Advice
There is a wide ecosystem of open source software, and distributing it has always been a challenge. There is often a central location or index where a publisher or an individual can put their software for others to access it. Finding and consuming it,… Continue reading Open Source Package Management: Balancing Power and Security
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) faced unique challenges on the cybersecurity front. The massive disruption caused by the pandemic only exacerbated the challenges of protecting data, systems and business—not to m… Continue reading How Can SMBs Fight Cyberattacks?
The federal computer crime law makes it both a criminal offense and a civil offense (you can sue for damages or loss) for someone to “access a computer without authorization” or to “exceed authorized access” to a computer, and then do certain proscrib… Continue reading After Van Buren, are Data Scraping Cases Barred?
A survey of 400 IT professionals from small to medium enterprises published this week found three quarters of respondents concluded remote work makes it harder for employees to follow good security practices, with two-thirds (66%) admitting they are o… Continue reading JumpCloud Survey: Remote Work Taking a Security Toll
John David McAfee took his own life yesterday, in a Spanish prison.
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Google, in collaboration with several open source communities, today unveiled a schema for describing vulnerabilities in open source software that will make it easier to for developers to track security issues that impact their applications. Dan Loren… Continue reading Google Shares Format for Open Source Vulnerability Data
Single-page web apps are massively growing in popularity. Sites such as Airbnb, Pinterest and LinkedIn represent a new approach to designing and building web sites. The single-page app (SPA) is a next-gen web app and offers a faster and cleaner user e… Continue reading Securing Single-Page Web Applications