Collaborate Disseminate
When we talk about video games on an oscilloscope, you’d be pardoned for assuming the project involved an analog CRT scope in X-Y mode, with vector graphics for something like …read more Continue reading Tetris on an Oscilloscope, the Software Way
One of the pleasures of consuming old science fiction movies and novels is that they capture the mood of the time in which they are written. Captain Kirk was a 1960s guy and Picard was a 1990s guy, after all. Cold war science fiction often dealt with invasion. In the …read more
In case you hadn’t noticed, it was a bad week for system admins. Pennsylvania-based United Health Services, a company that owns and operates hospitals across the US and UK, was hit by a ransomware attack early in the week. The attack, which appears to be the Ryuk ransomware, shut down …read more
2019 was another banner year for bots, trojans, RATS and ransomware. Let’s take a look back. Continue reading Biggest Malware Threats of 2019
This has been an interesting week. First off, security researchers at Armis discovered a set of serious vulnerabilities in the vxWorks Real Time Operating System (RTOS). Released under a name that sounds like the title of a western or caper movie, Urgent/11. Not familiar with vxWorks? It’s a toss-up as …read more
Continue reading This Week in Security: vxWorks, Expensive Email Fraud, and What’s in Your Wallet?
There are 11 security flaws affecting VxWorks: “the most widely used operating system you may never have heard about”. Continue reading ‘Urgent/11’ flaws affect 200 million devices – from routers to elevators
Security researchers have discovered almost a dozen zero-day vulnerabilities in VxWorks, one of the most widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) for embedded devices that powers over 2 billion devices across aerospace, defense, industrial, medic… Continue reading Critical Flaws Found in VxWorks RTOS That Powers Over 2 Billion Devices
Researchers have uncovered easy-to-exploit bugs that can impact physical safety, utilities, healthcare, critical infrastructure and more, setting the stage for widespread worm attacks. Continue reading ‘URGENT/11’ Critical Infrastructure Bugs Threaten EternalBlue-Style Attacks