Collaborate Disseminate
via Shaun Nichols – writing at El Reg – comes this highly entertaining piece, detailing the ‘steps’ NordVPN is planning on taking to beef-up the company’s deeply flawed security stance… Today’s Must Read.
‘”We are planning to use not only our own k… Continue reading NORD’d
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via Shaun Nichols, writing at El Reg, comes this superb tell all – detailing Adobe Inc.’s (NASDAQ: ADBE) typically par-for-the-course security incompetence (anyone recollect Adobe Shockwave and Adobe Flash?): A… Continue reading Plundered, They Were
Meanwhile, in astonishing security news targeting the latest VPN outrage.
I would suggest not relying on the ‘security’ of the VPN infrastructure ‘managed’ by NordVPN, but then – that should be a given.
“It was unclear how long the attackers remained… Continue reading NordVPN Keys Stolen 19 Months Ago
via Renee Dudley, writing for ProPublica comes extraordinarily bad news for those of you laboring under the mistaken belief that Managed Service Providers (and their ilk) can be trusted.
The post The New Malware Target: MSPs, Domino Effect Ad Infinitu… Continue reading The New Malware Target: MSPs, Domino Effect Ad Infinitum
via Zach Whittaker, writing at Techcrunch, comes this interesting piece, describing a ‘cybersecurity’ company’s (in this case – Comodo) abject faliure to protect it’s own web presence (from a recently reported – and fixed-by-the-vendor flaw). A nearly… Continue reading Comodo Takes Security Seriously… Wait, What?
via the eponymous Dan Goodin, writing at Ars Technica, comes news of a cloud solution gone spuriously out-of-control. Certainly a clear-enough indication the ‘Cloud’ is not to be trusted, at any time, nor from any vendor – regardless of claims to the … Continue reading ASUS Cloud Services: Backdoor In Motion
Quite likely the defining opinion piece, well-crafted by the inimitable Kara Swisher, writing at The New York Times, targeting the the entity known as Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) (of which, in our opinion, is a classicly structured and well organized … Continue reading Put A Couple Of Zeroes On It…
Another reason to not put significant trust in the United Nations.
“In an email to the ICAO, the Lockheed Martin cyberintelligence analyst described the attack as “a significant threat to the aviation industry.” It had the characteristics of a “water… Continue reading UN Aviation Agency Attempted Coverup, Minimization Of 2016 Cyberattack
Just A Crystal Based AM Radio, Not Really A Mobile Phone, I Just Happen To Appreciate The Photo.
Catalin Cimpanu reporting at Zero Day, provides us with the Litany of Telephony Flaws: 2019 Edition (also known as just another day in Security Dreamland… Continue reading Newly Discovered Security SNAFU 3G, 4G, 5G Networks Impacted: Here We Go!
via Catalin Cimpanu, writing at ZDNet News, comes the sorry tale of fundamental security incompetence (compounded by utter stupidity, I’ll wager) as displayed by Abine, the publishers of password manager Blur’. Reportedly, the comnpany exposed their e… Continue reading Password Management Incompetence: The Blur Story