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Apr 20, 2020
As was the case in the past weeks, threat actors attempt to capitalize on coronavirus outbreak. System32 Comics Is BGP Safe Yet? No. But we are tracking it carefully BGP leaks and hijacks have been accepted as an unavoidable part… read more »
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Apr 17, 2020
This week NASA, MIT and…d'oh! COVID-19, again! Sandboxie's Source Code has been released Sophos, the company that acquired the Sandboxie sandboxing software and technology from Invincea in 2017, has released the source code of the application to the public. Sandboxie,… read more »
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Apr 16, 2020
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be – Chuck Palahniuk EU Commission Recommends a Common Approach to Using Mobile Apps and Location Data to Combat and Exit COVID-19… read more »
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Apr 15, 2020
The issue has been discovered by two developers, Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk. Developers have demonstrated how easy it is to trick TikTok into connecting to a fake server, exploiting app architecture, that uses HTTP instead of HTTPS to retrieve media… read more »
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Apr 14, 2020
In an interesting article on The MIT Press Reader, Finn Brunton & Helen Nissenbaum discuss how opting out of surveillance is practically useless, and suggests to use data obfuscation as a better alternative. I suggest to read the whole article,… read more »
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Apr 13, 2020
Happy (quarantined) Easter! Hackers accessed staff mailboxes at Italian bank Monte dei Paschi Italian state-owned bank Monte dei Paschi discloses a security breach, hackers have accessed the mailboxes of some employees and sent emails to clients. The news was reported… read more »
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Apr 10, 2020
Don't worry, 5G did not cause Coronavirus! https://twitter.com/Sandford_Police/status/1246125769539162113 How the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory tore through the internet It started with one doctor. On January 22, Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws published an interview with Kris Van Kerckhoven, a general… read more »
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Apr 9, 2020
My regular readers already knows that my favorite desktop environment on Linux is i3.However, let's face it, the UI of the default theme of lockscreen tool (i3lock) is hawful. Luckily, i3lock provides some command line options, such us the -i… read more »
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Apr 8, 2020
Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion - Mikko Hypponen Twitter warns users – Firefox might hold on to private messages A bit of a brouhaha erupted at the end of last week – it wasn’t quite an… read more »
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Apr 7, 2020
Some weeks ago, i've published a post about a research on Telegram Messenger by HackerFactor.The post got a lot of visit, so today i'd like to share a similar analysis, this time focused on WhatsApp calls. The analysis [1], made… read more »
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Apr 6, 2020
Remote work, 5th week! Microsoft: Emotet Took Down a Network by Overheating All Computers Microsoft says that an Emotet infection was able to take down an organization's entire network by maxing out CPUs on Windows devices and bringing its Internet… read more »
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Apr 3, 2020
It's Friday! Let's talk about Minecraft, Books, Space Movies AI and Robots! xkcd: Pathogen Resistance Automated decision-making systems and the fight against COVID-19 As the COVID-19 pandemic rages throughout the world, many are wondering whether and how to use automated… read more »
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Apr 2, 2020
Zero Trust Security is an IT security model that requires strict identity verification for every person and device trying to access resources on a private network, regardless of whether they are within or outside of the network perimeter. “Zero trust”… read more »
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Apr 1, 2020
Researcher have found a security issue in the Windows client of the popular video conferencing service that can be used for limited remote code execution and, worse, to capture and replay security tokens to access network resources. The app has… read more »
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Apr 1, 2020
Also in my privacy roundup the main topic this week is, again and unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic. Bluetooth tracking and COVID-19: A tech primer In a scramble to track, and thereby stem the flow of, new cases of Covid-19, Governments… read more »
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Mar 31, 2020
Recently in Norway a school had to stop using the Whereby video conference service because during a video lesson a man broke into the group video conference and showed himself naked. This new phenomenon is called, according to Wikipedia, "Zoombombing":… read more »
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Mar 30, 2020
From today, i'll start to split the original "Weekly Roundup" in several small posts spread over the entire week.So, let's start with the "Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup"! Two zero days are Targeting DrayTek Broadband CPE Devices From December 4, 2019, 360Netlab… read more »
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Mar 27, 2020
Amethyst is a great project by Matt Sarnoff.It's like a classic home computer: it has an integrated keyboard and can generate audio and video and has a built-in high-level programming language for users to write their own programs. It uses… read more »
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Mar 26, 2020
A recently discovered campaign that targets home and small-office routers is redirecting users to fake COVID-19 informational sites that attempt to install password stealing malware. A post published by security firm Bitdefender [1] said the attack is targetting Linksys routers,… read more »
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Mar 25, 2020
Windows Service Accounts are the elephant in the room in the corporate environment: things that nobody ever talks about or considers to be a problem. Often, these service accounts are in the Domain Admins group, with passwords like "Service123", "Password123",… read more »