why are those data leaks problematic? because scammers and spammers will use this data to even better scam (social engineer) the affected users that is why it is essential to give those platforms (if the user needs them) as little […]
scroll down to ENGLISH “Zehntausende Mail-Server wegen Exchange-Lücke gehackt. Wegen einer vor wenigen Tagen bekanntgewordenen Sicherheitslücke sind laut US-Medienberichten Zehntausende E-Mail-Server von Unternehmen, Behörden und Bildungseinrichtungen Opfer von Hacker-Attacken geworden. “Deutsche Unternehmen sind im internationalen Vergleich besonders stark von dieser […]
SecurityLab, [22.12.20 10:00] Google has explained the reasons for the massive failure of its services that took place last week. Recall that on December 14 of this year, users around the world for 47 minutes could not access Gmail, YouTube […]
Drei Krankheiten: erfolgreich kaputt gespart: schlechte Bezahlung: im Vergleich mit anderen EU-Ländern und auch USA steht Deutschland schlecht da was die Entlohnung von Ärzte an geht auch schlechter als Japan und gar Italien (!) das ist vermutlich auch mit ein […]
not sure if the news rang through… the Amazon Cloud (AWS) guy will be the new CEO of Amazon. What cloud? Amazon “cloud” Hetzner “cloud” cloud (centralized digital infrastructure) can be designed / implemented in different ways. from: the user/admin […]
SecurityLab, [03.12.20 11:15] Vulnerabilities in open source software can go undetected for more than four years before being discovered. According to the GitHub State of the Octoverse annual report, the use of open source projects, components, and libraries is more […]
accroding to BleepingComputer: “zero-day vulnerability in their VPN products” (so not FallOut of SolarWinds-orion-auto-update-software-supply-chain) “…have information about hacking of a well-known firewall vendor and other security products by this they are silent and do not release press releases for their […]
SecurityLab, [02.11.20 11:52] The 50-year-old businessman (Hunter Biden?) in April 2019 brought his device to the IT store Mac Shop in Delaware for repair, but never returned to pick it up. The device was soon seized by the FBI. According […]
Overview Recent 360Netlab unknown threat detection system to capture to a group of unknown malicious families of the sample, which a number of samples supported CPU architectures are x86(32/64), ARM(32/64), MIPS(MIPS32/MIPS-III) as well as PPC, after our analysis, which is […]
contains advertisement. to be honest, it is hard to keep up the speed at which cyber incidents are reported. here is the latest take on “Russian IT Sec Updates”. have phun! SecurityLab, [28.09.20 08:20] Last month, TikTok developers rolled […]
SecurityLab, [14.07.20 15:35] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has unveiled a new database demonstrating how and where us law enforcement agencies use tracking technologies. A map of the use of tracking technologies in the United States is presented (https://www.securitylab.ru/news/510018.php) SecurityLab, […]
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of the iceberg) what if – instead of security – Google […]
SecurityLab, [04.06.20 15:05] The Chinese-language cybercrime group Cycldek (also known as Goblin Panda or Conimes) has developed the malicious tool USBCulprit to carry out attacks on physically isolated systems and steal confidential data. Cycldek APT has developed a malware for […]
KEEP BLUETOOTH OFF AT ALL TIMES! (switch it on when you need it and off when done (file transfer etc)) also saves energy on phones does usage of stylish ear bud bluetooth headsets increases security risk? (Bluetooth permanent on) this […]
this age of mass surveillance… … who is observing “the observers”? guess with it-security and internet-security (internet = roads, cars = computers that users use every day) it is like with real-life-security – there is no 100% security. all users […]
SecurityLab, [21.04.20 15:35] Bitdefender experts have reported a malicious campaign against oil and gas companies. Attackers use targeted phishing and send emails to victims on behalf of logistics companies and engineering contractors. The goal of the campaign is to infect […]
SecurityLab, [26.03.20 08:10] The largest free hosting provider on the darknet, Daniel’s Hosting, was hacked for the second time in 16 months, and stopped working on Wednesday, March 25. Unknown attackers deleted the entire database of the hosting provider, as […]
SecurityLab, [24.03.20 08: 05] Cybercriminals hack Windows PCs through a previously unknown vulnerability in the Adobe Type Manager library (atmfd.dll) used by the operating system to process PostScript type 1 fonts. Microsoft described attacks exploiting this vulnerability as “targeted” and […]
Weapons of Mac Destruction: MACs OSX no longer safe? Apple takes it security seriously iOS secured locked down “blackbox” zero days exist against fully patched iOS devices: at the same time the lock down makes it almost impossible for user […]
No. 1 Emotet — 36 026 samples Trojan was first discovered 2014 and was used to intercept data transferred via a secure connection. We will remind, in September of this year Emotet came back to life after 4 months of […]
SecurityLab, [24.12.19 10: 05] An attempt by Chinese farmers to fight drones infecting pigs with African plague has disabled the navigation systems of some aircraft. According to the South China Morning Post, an unauthorized GPS signal jamming device was installed […]
this really raises the question: the mobile (complete computer) phone (number) as key to everything? is it a good idea to rely on smart phones (that are essentially a very small laptop and a cellular modem) and phone numbers to […]
now WITH SPICY COMMENTS X-D SecurityLab, [22.12.19 12:40] A Twitter user using the alias 08Tc3wBB created tfp0-an exploit that allows you to jailbreak the latest iPhone models with IOS 13.3. The functionality of the exploit has already been confirmed by […]
SecurityLab, [25.11.19 15:44] The Creator of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee (Tim Berners-Lee) presented an action plan to protect the network from political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations and other harmful influences. Tim Berners-Lee: “control of information is hugely […]
MOZILLA ONE URGES YOU! MAKE JAVASCRIPT DISABLED IN THUNDERBIRD THE DEFAULT! Description Using the new logical assignment operators in a JavaScript switch statement could have caused a type confusion, leading to a memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This […]
update: “The sale was met with significant opposition since it involved the transfer of what is viewed as a public asset to a private equity investment firm.[45] In late January 2020, ICANN halted its final approval of the sale after […]
SecurityLab, [22.11.19 08:23] French company Edenred reported a cyberattack using malware that affected an unknown number of computer systems. The company has launched an investigation to determine the extent of the contamination. Payment solution provider Edenred has been the victim […]
Pwn2Own 2020: opening a pdf can be enough to compromise system! https://youtu.be/u1udr7j9MQA?t=359 90% of companies DO NOT NEED JavaScript or macros to run in PDF but still it is there… and Adobe knows about it: “JavaScripts in PDFs as a […]
new Russian IT Security updates: thanks to https://www.securitylab.ru/ and https://translate.yandex.com/ SecurityLab, [06.11.19 16:12] The Libarchive compression library, which is included by default in Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD distributions, contains a vulnerability that allows an attacker […]
SecurityLab, [01.11.19 15:21] Google has released fixes for two vulnerabilities in Chrome, including a zero-day vulnerability exploited in real-world attacks. The issues are fixed in browser version 78.0.3904.87 for Windows, Mac and Linux, and users are strongly advised to install […]