A large Los Angeles hospital chose to pay hackers who were holding its computer network hostage, a move its CEO said was in its best interest and the most efficient way to end the problem. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center showed uncommon transparency in saying Wednesday that it paid the 40 bitcoins […]
Monthly archives: February 2016
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I have recently found a vulnerability on my Netgear Managed Switch I use at home. Its an information disclosure vulnerability. Basically the web management application fails to restrict URL access to different application areas. Remote, unauthenticated attackers could exploit this issue to download the device’s startup-config, which contains administrator credentials in encrypted form. […]
LastPass and ProtonMail how to guide If your like me, you have many many many password to keep track of. Impossible! This needs a password manager. Step in to the light LastPass! I’m not going to explain that LastPass is as I will assume you will know already or will […]
Attackers can bypass controls to distribute malware. eBay has refused to fix a major flaw in its online sales platform that is being used to target Android, iOS and Windows users with malware, according to security firm Check Point. The company today published details of a “severe vulnerability” it said […]
GOOGLE’S SECURITY street gang Project Zero has been kicking sand in the face of Malwarebytes and picking the firm’s protection precautions apart. Malwarebytes usually wears the boot in this kind of thing, but Project Zero has taken a punt in the security firm’s direction and accused it of all sorts […]
There are over 10,000 machines that are currently infected by malware in Nasa, showing that the US space agency definitely does not have the best possible cybersecurity practices and needs to completely overhaul how it secures its internal network, a leading security firm has warned. On Monday 1 February, IBTimes […]
Asda, the second largest supermarket in the UK by market share, reportedly failed to patch a vulnerability in its online grocery store that exposed customers’ personal information and payment details for nearly two years. Information security consultant Paul Moore estimates that over 19 million transactions were potentially at risk in […]