Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
There has been a flurry of WordPress security and vulnerability articles over the past week or so. It is no surprise that the world’s most popular website builder is a target for threat actors, especially as Automatic’s core code can be added to with third-party, open-source or even self-written plugins, …
Of course there is, and in some surprising places. Here is a report by the The Citizen Lab, examining how Microsoft Bing censors autosuggestions on politically sensitive Chinese names and other topics. This is not only applied in China, as we would expect, but in other regions too! Bada Bing, …
The malware/botnet that instigated the recent DDoS attack has now been given a name by Cloudflare – Mantis. Mantis, the tiny shrimp that launched 3,000 DDoS attacks • The Register Octagon has specified Cloudflare to protect some it’s clients high profile websites. Distributed Denial of Service attacks – Smart Thinking …
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This is a description of how a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Network File System (NFS) could be exploited – which was discovered by Trend Micro Vulnerability Research Service. Zero Day Initiative — CVE-2022-30136: Microsoft Windows Network File System v4 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability This vulnerability was patched in Microsoft’s …
I am a great fan of the Tor browser – I use it when carrying out research and when added to a VPN, it gives me a high level of privacy – particularly useful when travelling or working away from the office. Now the latest release includes functionality to assist …
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