Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Zerodium has announced it will buy bugs from researchers in popular email clients – for white-hat purposes although their actions are controversial. Zerodium looks to buy zero-days in Outlook and Thunderbird email clients – The Record by Recorded Future
A vulnerability has been discovered in a component of Minecraft, Log4j, an open-source logging tool that’s used in many online applications. Zeroday in ubiquitous Log4j tool poses a grave threat to the Internet | Ars Technica
We all depend heavily on anti-virus scanners, they are a primary tool on our local machines and servers to combat the simplest of cyber attacks – sending us malware via email. Consequently any techniques developed by bad actors to get malicious packages through those scanner is a major concern. There …
A zero-day attack refers to the gap between the “secret” launch of a cyber attack and the subsequent discovery of the attack and mitigation being available. In this gap your defences have not yet been updated because your security vendor is unaware there is problem. Your systems a laid bare …
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Before we go on – hacking competitions are not illegal and many of them are organised across the world each year. They give a chance for the white hat hacking community to improve their skills and can often find flaws in software that benefit all of us. Once a cyber …
