Google published three articles yesterday, to do with privacy and cyber security, showing how one of the world’s biggest corporations, that primarily depends on processing and using your online information for profit, is going to take steps to protect you. The first promotes the feature, in Google search, where you …
Ever Surf closes the door before the horse bolted
Here is a good news cyber-security story – the fix was in before the vulnerability was exploited (hopefully). Flaw could have let baddies access Ever Surf crypto wallets • The Register Everscale blockchain wallet shutters web version after vulnerability found – The Record by Recorded Future What can a hacker …
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Active Mass Scanning for a Movable Type Vulnerability – If you do not know if this impacts you – then your business continuity documentation is not up to date!
SANS Internet Storm Diary is reporting a dramatic increase in the scanning for a vulnerability in the CMS Movable Type – software similar in function to WordPress for the development of web sites and web content. Scans for Movable Type Vulnerability (CVE-2021-20837) – SANS Internet Storm Centre National Vulnerability Database …
Israeli government websites disrupted
I have written recently about the increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks – here is a real world example of the effectiveness of these new massive attacks: Israeli govt sites hit by huge DDoS attack • The Register
DDoS attacks increase in 2021
Denial of Service attacks or Distributed Denial of Service attacks are cyber security attacks where a website is flooded with malicious traffic making it unusable. Research by Radware, found these attacks had greatly increased in 2021 – where it was also discovered that ransomware gangs have been using these attacks …
