Old technology solutions – every organization has a few of them tucked away somewhere. It could be an old and unsupported storage system or a tape library holding the still-functional backups from over 10 years ago. This is a common scenario with software too. For example, consider an accounting software suite that was extremely expensive […]
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory warning of multiple vulnerabilities in Mitsubishi Electric GX Works3 engineering software. “Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow unauthorized users to gain access to the MELSEC iQ-R/F/L series CPU modules and the MELSEC iQ-R series OPC UA server
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Platform certificates used by Android smartphone vendors like Samsung, LG, and MediaTek have been found to be abused to sign malicious apps. The findings were first discovered and reported by Google reverse engineer Łukasz Siewierski on Thursday. “A platform certificate is the application signing certificate used to sign the ‘android’ application on the system image,” a report […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe number of memory safety vulnerabilities in Android dropped from 223 in 2019 to 85 in 2022
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsFirst used as botnets, their lucrative nature turned them into independent criminal enterprises
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsYou flick through some reels and an ad for “a more private phone” crops up. You scroll through your news feed and catch wind of yet another data breach at a major retailer. You see a post from a friend who says their social media account was hacked. Maybe you don’t think about security every […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsHP’s latest report suggests 44% of malware was delivered via archive files in Q3 2022
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsWhether you’re standing around the water cooler at work, waiting for your kids at the school gate or sitting around the dinner table, data breaches are without doubt the hot topic of conversation. In late September, we were all shaken when news of the biggest Australian data breach to date broke – a record 10 […]
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Some thoughts on security announcements to date at AWS re:Invent More posts on AWS Security Watching Werner Vogel’s Keynote In this post I’m just compiling some of the security announcements at AWS re:Invent. I’ll have to go back and take a look at them more in detail later as, unfortunately and fortunately, someone hired me to teach […]
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