Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The future of cyber crime is smart contracts on a blockchain with software bugs! Dan Goodin has an article explaining how a bug (flaw) in the code for drafting a blockchain smart contract, by MonoX Finance, allowed a hacker to steal $31million from them. Really stupid “smart contract” bug let …
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Bruce Schneier is recommending these articles, by Sean Gallagher, on securing your digital life. Securing your digital life, part one: The basics | Ars Technica Securing your digital life, part two: The bigger picture—and special circumstances | Ars Technica
He is a round-up of the Microsoft updates from SANS Internet Strom. As always get these done! Microsoft November 2021 Patch Tuesday (sans.edu)
Attackers are always looking for new way to get their illicit packages through defences and this research paper outlines how by exploiting Unicode, malicious code can be written into software so that human code reviewers cannot recognise that it is there. Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities “This work has been under …
I had to write about patches today – yesterday was Microsoft Patch Tuesday and we got a range patches for their software. Some of these were for critical vulnerabilities with one of them actually being exploited in the wild. Microsoft October 2021 Patch Tuesday (sans.edu) Other software vendors also seem …
