New Ransomware

Just in case you thought because I have not been writing about it, that ransomware has gone away, threat actors have launched yet another version of everyone’s worse nightmare malware. New Eldorado ransomware targets Windows, VMware ESXi VMs (bleepingcomputer.com) Eldorado ransomware attacks and all the usual suspects, encrypting both Linux …

Because It’s Friday – Tapputi-belat-ekalle

perfume

I have a history of science lesson for today’s “Because It’s Friday”. Roberta Angioi – a Postdoctoral Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Dublin City University – has an article on The Conversation discussing Tapputi-belat-ekalle, who was probably the worlds first documented chemist – she was formulating perfumes 3000 years ago, in …

If Bruce Schneier says it is serious…

…then we should take notice. New Open SSH Vulnerability – Schneier on Security It is technical, if you do not understand if this impacts you then ask someone. regreSSHion: Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH server | Qualys Security Blog