Does the sun shine brightly? Yes. Remember the old adage, everything we use can be used against us… so of course attackers will use AI. So yes AI or artificial intelligence will be used by attackers to create better phishing campaigns and to translate any language to another. First of all we can assume misspelled … Read more
What is the better password policy? A longer password like NIST 800-53 says? Key NIST password guidelines Minimum length of 8 characters and maximum length of at least 64 characters if chosen by the user. Allow usage of ASCII characters (including space) and Unicode characters. Check prospective passwords against a list that contains values … Read more
Yes it was Patch Tuesday July9th (yesterday). This means Krebsonsecurity had a post describing all the action: The first Microsoft zero-day this month is CVE-2024-38080, a bug in the Windows Hyper-V component that affects Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 systems. CVE-2024-38080 allows an attacker to increase their account privileges on a Windows machine. Although … Read more
Happy 4th of July: I always do a full backup on this day – so I have at least a few backups at July 4th and Christmas. I may backup other days, but make sure I do one today!!! Perform some stuff that you normally would not on this celebration, as well I am sure … Read more
Every day and month in this new year (2024) the hackers of the criminal kind are working on new attacks to steal/take our resources and money. At SecureWorld yesterday there was a presentation by the secret service of some new phishing and other attacks, including a review of the Snowflake attacks. Although he did not … Read more
