Attack versus Defense – What is Status?

It is September 5th, 2022  and probably as good a time as any to re-evaluate where we are with a general Attack versus Defense analysis: Attackers:  Only need to find one problem in defense to overcome and take advantage of to breach a system or network. Once the system is found that can be overtaken … Read more

Anticipating Cyberattacks Too Hard

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

Every month New Vulnerabilities and Patches/Fixes

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

Tik Tok and other Chinese Apps Data Compilation

What could go wrong when Tik Tok and other Chinese Apps are accumulating data? 2017 Chinese intelligence law must allow any company in China to give to the government any information that it requires. Which means that any data in any company must be given to CCP if needed. Chinese app must give information and … Read more

Security Update for Chrome

chrome has a new security update according to CISA(Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) post: Google has released Chrome version 103.0.5060.114 for Windows. This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. Official Google update: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html This update includes 4 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed … Read more