This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). Why do we care about encryption? Why was it a big deal, at least in theory, when Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this year that Facebook would move to end-to-end encryption on all three of […]
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). In recent years, several groups of cybersecurity researchers have disclosed dozens of memory side-channel vulnerabilities in modern processors and DRAMs, like Rowhammer, RAMBleed, Spectre, and Meltdown. Have you ever noticed they all had at […]
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). Amazon S3 cloud bucket misconfigurations however have dropped dramatically. The last 12 months has seen the exposure of a record 2.3 billion files across cloud databases and online shares, according to an analysis released […]
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). Academic researchers today disclosed details of the newest class of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel processors that impacts all modern chips, including the chips used in Apple devices. After the discovery of Spectre […]
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). A new professional development initiative will give 100 women the opportunity to revamp their careers and prepare for new roles in cybersecurity in only 100 days… Read more Top 5 Security News What’s […]
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). A just-patched vulnerability in the Windows operating system that was previously unknown up until last week is being actively exploited in the wild; it opens the door for full system takeover. Discovered by Vasily […]
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). VPN history starts back in 1996, when a Microsoft employee started developing the Peer to Peer Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). In 1999, the specification was published. Since then, VPN protocol technology has evolved and, at […]
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). Between 1 January and 28 March this year hackers were able to access a “limited number” of consumer Outlook.com, Hotmail and MSN Mail email accounts, Microsoft has confirmed. Read more Top 5 Security […]
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). Researchers have detailed a set of side-channel and downgrade attacks that potentially allow an attacker to compromise Wi-Fi networks equipped with WPA3 protection. Read more Top 5 Security News WordPress Urges Users to […]
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). It’s been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… …the bad week […]