Discussion of public breaches of security
2 stories from the Hacker News: Solar Winds Hackers Targeting Government and Why everyone needs to take the latest CISA directive seriously The Solarwinds hack from last year (the one I discussed in several stories including this one: SolarWinds hackers Hacked Multi-factor Authentication. It is sometimes instructive to review past hacks to see what … Read more
Yes now your files will be hidden (apparently they will be placed in a Winrar format – which is a kind of packed encrypted format). And then the original files are deleted. There are more details in the Sophos analysis a their blogpost. How about this attack? KrebsonSecurity has an interesting story about a Nigerian … Read more
Hacker News has an article on how Hackers use a method of installing their software onto your systems. 1. If you notice the problem is when the user opens an attachment or link (URL) in their web browser(Firefox – Microsoft Edge, or Google chrome among the most used browsers) 2. Then the browser decodes the … Read more
Has it finally happened … is everything going to get hacked? Well the issue is everything can be hacked of course. What this latest issue is unfortunately taking advantage of the design flaw in a critical piece of IT technology. Compilers are needed to create software (all software). So what would happen if all compilers … Read more
Information has a way to reduce uncertainty, but we also have to be ready to make a decision (make a call). How much information is enough? Or is too much information the problem? Are you willing to make changes once you learn some more information – what if the info you learned makes your … Read more
