15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2019.08.23
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks (Krebs on Security, Aug 19 2019) “Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Traditionally, those connections have been mainly hacked computers, mobile phones, or home routers. […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2019.08.16
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. IBM’s Warshipping Attacks Wi-Fi Networks From Afar (Infosecurity Magazine, Aug 07 2019) You’ve heard about wardriving, but what about warshipping? Researchers at IBM X-Force Red have detailed a new tactic that they say can break into victims’ Wi-Fi networks from far. 2. […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2019.08.09
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Another Attack Against Driverless Cars (Schneier on Security, Jul 31 2019) “In this piece of research, attackers successfully attack a driverless car system — Renault Captur’s “Level 0″ autopilot (Level 0 systems advise human drivers but do not directly operate cars) — […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2019.08.02
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Chances of destructive BlueKeep exploit rise with new explainer posted online (Ars Technica, Jul 22 2019) Slides give the most detailed publicly available technical documentation seen so far. 2. China-Linked Threat Actor Using New Backdoor (SecurityWeek, Jul 23 2019) The China-linked threat […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2019.07.26
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Critical RCE Vulnerability Found in Palo Alto Networks VPN Product (SecurityWeek, Jul 22 2019) A critical remote code execution vulnerability has been found and patched in Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect product. 2. Is ‘REvil’ the New GandCrab Ransomware? (Krebs on Security, Jul […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2019.07.19
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. New election systems use vulnerable software (AP NEWS, Jul 15 2019) An Associated Press analysis has found that like many counties in Pennsylvania, the vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use Windows 7 or an older operating system to create ballots, […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2019.07.12
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. New MacOS Malware Discovered (Dark Reading, Jul 02 2019) The newest attack code for the Mac includes three pieces of malware found in June — a zero-day exploit, a package that includes sophisticated anti-detection and obfuscation routines, and a family of malware […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2019.07.05
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Anatomy of a ransomware attack: How attackers gain access to unstructured data (Help Net Security, Jun 27 2019) Let’s walk through a typical ransomware attack to understand how attackers gain access to your company’s most valuable asset: unstructured data. 2. MageCart Launches […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2019.06.28
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Trump approved cyber-strikes against Iran’s missile systems (The Washington Post, Jun 24 2019) Operation comes as the administration tells industry to be on alert for Iranian cyberattacks. 2. Google launches new Chrome protection from bad URLs (Naked Security – Sophos, Jun 20 […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2019.06.21
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid (The New York Times, Jun 15 2019) The Trump administration is using new authority to take more aggressive digital action in a warning to Moscow and in a demonstration of its abilities. 2. The […]