Tag: cybersecurity

Your Feed is from https://www.safeharboroncyber.com/Blog/ CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on Salon’s optional coin mining A recent story from arstechnica.com says things we don’t talk about Salon’s optional coin mining site lets you avoid ads, but it can drain your CPU power. Salon.com has a new, cryptocurrency-driven strategy...

Your Feed is from https://www.safeharboroncyber.com/Blog/ CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on AndroRAT What is most likely to be an overlooked story from blog.trendmicro.com dissects how Trend Micro has discovered a new variant of Android Remote Access Tool (AndroRAT), identified as ANDROIDOS_ANDRORAT.HRXC, capable of injecting root attacks for malicious...

Your Feed is from https://www.safeharboroncyber.com/Blog/ CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on Protect the cybersecurity of small businesses and their consumers A must read story from thehill.com calls out on protecting the cybersecurity of small businesses and their consumers. Imagine this is your early days. About the time you...

Your Feed is from https://www.safeharboroncyber.com/Blog/ CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on cyber attacks financial services and e-commerce trend A recent story from techwireasia.com report on a new ThreatMetrix report, last year’s attack rate increased 44% compared with last year, with a total of 700 million cyber attacks. Businesses...

Your Feed is from https://www.safeharboroncyber.com/Blog/ CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on Pardo Speech What is most likely to be an overlooked story from jpost.com report that Pardo made a speech at the Tel Aviv Exhibition Center at Muni-Expo, the first international cybersecurity conference for municipalities. He drew...

Your Feed is from https://www.safeharboroncyber.com/Blog/ CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on more Olympic Destroyer This story from threatpost.com talks about how researchers found new wrinkles in the “Olympic Destroyer” malware attack on the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in South Korea. Cisco Talos researchers now believe the Olympic Destroyer malware...

Your Feed is from https://www.safeharboroncyber.com/Blog/ CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary Spectre and Meltdown Fixes A recent story from techrepublic.com proposes a revealing two main affects from Spectre and Meltdown Fixes. Due to performance overhead between 1% and 800%, changes to the Linux kernel have been found...

Your Feed is from https://www.safeharboroncyber.com/Blog/ CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on IoT Botnet Bypasses Firewall Today I came across this story from securityaffairs.co that looks to Security researchers that have discovered a new type of IoT botnet bypass firewall known as DoubleDoor, which can bypass firewalls and modem security...

Your Feed is from https://www.safeharboroncyber.com/Blog/ CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on Western Union: A must read story from theregister.co.uk concludes a hidden breach announcement discovery on Western Union has confirmed that one of its IT vendors was hacked, and that customer information is exposed to gangsters. A...

Your Feed is from https://www.safeharboroncyber.com/Blog/ CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on Air Gap This story from techrepublic.com details researchers have found a way to get around the Faraday cage and the air gap by using low-level magnetic fields that can not be stopped by traditional methods....