Discussion of public breaches of security
Why would Cybersecurity practitioners be against CCP China? According to the above image which catalogs the top5 countries blocked by the firewall to this website – Russia, US, China, Germany, and Singapore. Let’s face it we are getting attacks from the whole world.The top 4 countries that are on every cybersecurity practitioner radar should be … Read more
The Android Phone One Plus 9 is made in China by BKK There seem to be lots of reviews like by Android Authority of this relatively new android phone. But no one is talking about the 900 pound Gorilla in the room or is that Elephant? – I always thought elephants weighed more! I have … Read more
This is a snowball rolling down the hill – the latest Dark Reading story discusses the latest thinking: “Attacks exploiting the flaws were first spotted in January. They initially were limited and targeted, seemingly for espionage: the adversaries primarily targeted specific email accounts. Microsoft attributed the activity to a group it calls Hafnium, believed to … Read more
30,000 organizations including small businesses, towns and local governments with an exchange server, i.e. anyone who runs their own exchange server was susceptible to getting hacked. Krebs on Security blogpost. Also we have the following story: White House cites ‘active threat,’ urges action despite Microsoft patch The problem may be that if one was attacked … Read more
FireEye Blogpost last week about phishing emails using the iCEDID phishing infection has an interesting image explaining this concept: This is a sophisticated phishing setup and thus it behooves us to review this carefully. If you notice the initial phishing email when opened has several embedded items as well as a password structure so that … Read more
