Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of April 15, 2016
The Badlock bug was disclosed this week. It is a security bug in Windows and Samba that may allow attackers to perform man in the middle (MITM) attacks, and denial of service (DOS) attacks. Badlock ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of April 8, 2016
WhatsApp a popular mobile online messaging service has just announced that they have completed end-to-end encryption for all of its services. This means that every message, image, video, etc. sent or ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of April 1, 2016
A man by the name of Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer was able to access thousands of printers on the internet and print anti-Semitic flyers. Weev was able to find these printers using a mass IP port ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of March 18, 2016
A software research team from Northbit have developed a reliable exploit for the Stagefright vulnerability found on Google’s mobile operating system Android. It is estimated that millions of phones ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of March 11, 2016
Mac users beware! The first fully working ransomeware for the Mac OS was discovered. A new ransomeware called KeRanger was discovered by a research team from Palo Alto Networks. The Transmission ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of March 4, 2016
This week the Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption (DROWN) attack has been getting a lot publicity. DROWN is a serious vulnerability that affects HTTPS via SSL and TLS. Attackers can ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of February 26, 2016
This week Forbes released the article “How to Protect Your Business from Social Media Security Threats”. The article covers key topics and gives suggestions on how to protect your business from ...