QNAP is a popular brand of soho NAS, available widely on Amazon. QNAP have released a security patch to fix a serious flaw, that if exploited could give threat actors administrator control of your device and information. QNAP warns customers to patch Linux Sudo flaw in NAS devices (bleepingcomputer.com)
School data compromised
Ransomware can happen to any organisation. Tanbridge House School in West Sussex has paid an unstated fee to keep their information out of the public domain and secret following a ransomware attack. Students and teachers at English high school impacted by ransomware attack (therecord.media) However The Ransom House cyber criminals still …
Watch where you download your Tor browser from…
…or any other software. Governments around the world, including for instance Russia, ban Tor web sites from the internet in their countries as it is a very effective way for users to conceal their IP address from authorities. However this had led to a rise in other sites offering Tor …
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WiFi Frame leak research
Domien Schepers and Aanjhan Ranganathan of Northeastern University and Mathy Vanhoef of imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven, have published a paper demonstrating a flaw in the way WiFi access points handle power saving requests to and from devices. This could enable a threat actor to manipulate the WiFi frames passing between devices …
The Phishing Email – Just one click…
This is a continuation of last week’s article that looked at stealth malware infection from a malicious phishing email. Phishing Emails I spend a lot of my time writing and talking about malicious phishing emails. It is the easiest attack vector into your organisation that a threat actor has access …
