Current Attacks Massive 1.6Mil unique addresses found hacked by “GoldBrute”

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

We are Never Going to Be Secure

I did not have to put 100% in the headline: i.e. “We are never going to be 100% Secure” Whenever there is a device that is to be used for your purposes,  someone can find a way to use that purpose against you and fight you with it. So it is my assertion: Do not … Read more

Hacking, is it Like a Recipe?

One thing we do know that Hackers are very successful in hacking overall. We don’t really know how they do it? But the headlines say it all: “Yahoo says 500 Million Accounts Stolen” If you study the image above (a bubble representation of all hacked entities) from the website www.informationisbeautiful.net You see Yahoo actually with … Read more

New DDOS Attacks Changes Likelihood in Risk Assessments

The hacker must have a method in starting an attack like Dynamic Denial of Service (DDOS). in the last few days. the one which used hacked cameras and DVRs (Brian Krebs story) in attacking many Internet properties.   Im sure you have seen the many media stories about this DDOS attack on various media (including Computerworld) … Read more