Dec 13, 2016 | General Security
Microsoft’s December 2016 Patch Tuesday includes 12 patches, 6 of which are Critical, of the type which could allow Remote Code Execution (RCE). These are the most important patches and should be applied as quickly as possible.
Dec 13, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
This blog entry is republished here as a training tool – full credit for this article goes to Jame Dupree: Wikileaks reveals email used to hack Podesta Tucked away in the twenty-first day of email releases from a top aide to Hillary Clinton today was the email...
Dec 12, 2016 | Buying Security Products, General Security
Netgear has just acknowledged an very embarrassing security bug that exists in a number of its home routers, probably including at a minimum the R6400, R7000 and R8000 models of their latest home routers. The bug is quite easy to explain, and it has been officially...
Dec 9, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
This week, the 24-year-old hacker Alonzo Knowles was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty in a case involving the hacking of female celebrities’ online accounts. Knowles didn’t stop at stealing what he found in the hacked accounts. He attempted...
Dec 6, 2016 | General Security
In what most employers would consider a ‘nightmare scenario’ an ex-employee took down the network of an ISP and caused them to be offline for a week. This employee was finally sentenced this week to 2 years in prison and fined $26,000 for the incident in...
Dec 6, 2016 | Data Breaches
More than 87 Million accounts associated with video-sharing site Dailymotion, one of the biggest video platforms in the world, have been stolen in another “mega-breach”. An unknown hacker has extracted all 87.6 million email addresses and usernames from...
