Crowdstrike is reporting on a sophisticated piece of malware that was able to inject malware into the SolarWinds build process: Key Points SUNSPOT is StellarParticle’s malware used to insert the SUNBURST backdoor into software builds…
ISO 27001 checklist: a step-by-step guide to implementation
We’re not going to lie: implementing an ISO 27001-compliant ISMS (information security management system) can be a challenge. But as the saying goes, nothing worth having comes easy, and ISO 27001 is definitely worth having.…
Dennis Yu’s 2021 Prediction: The Future of Facebook
I have a prediction. In 2021, Facebook is going to get busted up like Ma Bell (with Instagram and WhatsApp spun off on their own). The resulting exodus of unhappy advertisers will flee into the…
Cell Phone Location Privacy
We all know that our cell phones constantly give our location away to our mobile network operators; that’s how they work. A group of researchers has figured out a way to fix that. “Pretty Good…
Friday Squid Blogging: China Launches Six New Squid…
From Pingtan Marine Enterprise: The 6 large-scale squid jigging vessels are normally operating vessels that returned to China earlier this year from the waters of Southwest Atlantic Ocean for maintenance and repair. These vessels left…
DigitalMarketer 2020 Year in Review [Infographic]
One of the best ways to continue growing is to reflect on all you’ve accomplished in the past. So, the DigitalMarketer team took a look back at 2020 and rounded up our best achievements of…
Finding the Location of Telegram Users
Security researcher Ahmed Hassan has shown that spoofing the Android’s “People Nearby” feature allows him to pinpoint the physical location of Telegram users: Using readily available software and a rooted Android device, he’s able to…
United Nations security vulnerability exposed
Ethical hackers have discovered a security vulnerability at the United Nations, giving them access to more than 100,000 private employee records. The breach stems from exposed Git directories and credential files on domains associated with…
Catches of the month: Phishing scams for January…
The start of 2021 is looking an awful lot like the end of 2020 – not least when it comes to cyber crime. Scammers are as active now as they ever have been, so it’s…
On US Capitol Security — By Someone Who…
Smart commentary: …I was floored on Wednesday when, glued to my television, I saw police in some areas of the U.S. Capitol using little more than those same mobile gates I had the ones…