I often run NASA stories in “Because It’s Friday” section – now a report from the Office of Inspector General NASA says that the organisation’s unprepared when it comes to the insider threat. NASA’S INSIDER THREAT PROGRAM – Office of Inspector General NASA NASA in ‘serious jeopardy’ due to big …
The Spectre bug is back
A v.2 Spectre bug bug, with the potential to leak your data, has been found. Intel and ARM have been issuing advisories and statements on how it impacts their silicon chip processors. This new bug bypasses recent changes at the silicon level in their CPUs, implemented to address Spectre. Intel, …
QNAP device vulnerability – UPDATED
This post was first published on 26 January 2022 There have been further warnings to update QNAP devices that are vulnerable to a Linux bug: QNAP warns severe Linux bug affects most of its NAS devices (bleepingcomputer.com) Today is a day of minority device vulnerabilities – here is another for …
There could be a cyber storm coming – now is the time to prepare – UPDATED
This post was originally published on 10 March 2022. The Ukraine Russia conflict has been hot for a while now and there have been many column inches (or centimetres) written on how this conflict is also being fought on the internet – I have written many of them myself. Many …
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TLS certificates are what internet trust is built on
Russia has created it’s own TLS certificate organisation and has started issuing these security and trust certificates to Russian sites, who can no longer access issuing authorities outside of the country, because of sanctions. Moscow to issue TLS certificates to Russian websites • The Register