As written on their Blog (https://blog.lastpass.com) as of August 25th: “Two weeks ago, we detected some unusual activity within portions of the LastPass development environment. After initiating an immediate investigation, we have seen no evidence that this incident involved any access to customer data or encrypted password vaults. “ Essentially they found a developer machine … Read more
What is Vishing? Voice phishing, also known as vishing, is the practice of eliciting information or attempting to influence action via the telephone.(from hhs.gov site) Recently, a large U.S. company fell victim to a cyber attack that leveraged sophisticated phishing techniques involving phone calls to gain access to the victim organization. Phishing campaigns continue to … Read more
As per another Black Hat talk by a reporter: “IT industry guilty of ‘lack of imagination’ in failure to anticipate cyber-attack evolution” Kim Zetter gave a talk at BlackHat USA on August 11 about how the new attacks by cyber adversaries have caught the security community flat-footed. Zetter told Black Hat USA: “[Operation Aurora] was … Read more
What do hotels and travel have to do with cybersecurity? Firstly when you’re out of home base, the profile of what you do online is different. Similar to home cybersecurity and office cybersecurity is different. When you are away from home what happens? You don’t have control over the network , WiFi or other connections. … Read more
A new Vulnerability which was a “Zero Day” vulnerability in a Windows Tool called MSDT (Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool) according to Technewsworld.com story You can see the tool here in the following image: (after typing msdt in the Run or task search bar for Windows`10 operating system.) As I have discussed before – in … Read more