The Number 1 reason is: “We do not do an adequate job of patching and paying attention to security!” Again and again we can find reports and stories of entities not doing basic tasks: Above image is from Protiviti report Why are the basics not being done? Because a concerted effort to manage IT … Read more
Kalo Mina = Have a good month in Greek. So remember to do some major backups on Holidays (always good to at least do 2 major backups per year. I like to do them on holidays like the 4th of July and Christmas for example. So before watching the fireworks and more – do a … Read more
What kind of bad things are going on today on the Internet? Have you heard of formjacking, cryptojacking, and ransomware? Formjacking is where a retailer’s credit card “form” was hacked by criminals and the credit card information is sent to the criminal as well as or instead of the vendor you are expecting to … Read more
There are quite a few Google projects of which some are focused on security(there are many more projects, but these are the ones that could be cybersecurity. The explanation which is in italics- i.e. copied from theGoogle project webpages): https://opensource.google.com/projects/ Abseil Abseil an open-source collection of library code. also at https://abseil.io/ Abseil C++ code … Read more
As we have mentioned before the cycle of bugs found to patches released can sometimes be long. Tavis Ormandy has disclosed this bug in Microsoft Windows’ SymCrypt. Which can cause your system to have to reboot (with the right file or data passing through). Tavis Ormandy is a Vulnerability researcher at Google. This bug is … Read more
