As we have mentioned before the cycle of bugs found to patches released can sometimes be long. Tavis Ormandy has disclosed this bug in Microsoft Windows’ SymCrypt. Which can cause your system to have to reboot (with the right file or data passing through). Tavis Ormandy is a Vulnerability researcher at Google. This bug is … Read more
Internet Storm Center discusses an attack by the ‘GoldBrute’ botnet They found 1.5mil servers being used by the botnet. This means that a weakness in Microsoft (CVE-2019-0708) May 14 Customer Guidance page: Specifically: CVE-2019-0708 A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – when an unauthenticated attacker … Read more
It is all part of the Chinese strategy to steal technology and information as they work on being the top country in the world. There is an excellent article on the history of China and how it pertains to today’s world by Brandon J. Weichert at New English Review. The “trade war” is part of … Read more
From WSJ article On May 7th hackers were able to shut down a number of city of Baltimore computers. They demanded $100k worth of bitcoins to release their stranglehold. On this day that is about 13 Bitcoins (value of Bitcoins fluctuates). So Baltimore is refusing to pay as they should. The ransomware the hackers used … Read more
It may be hard to source some attacks, but it depends on the attack as well. We also have to decide what data to use as to who got attacked? Following data and image is from FBI report: https://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2018_IC3Report.pdf The answer to the question is 367 entities were attacked and reported to the FBI in … Read more
