Mozilla and Google have confirmed they will be aligning with Apple and their browsers will reject any web server certificate issued after 1st September which is valid for more than a year. Apple announced the move to only support 1 year certificates back in February and now Mozilla and Google (and thus all the ChromiumRead more
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For 20 years a small two person firm in Ohio has licensed their TCP/IP software stack for use in embedded systems and IoT devices – from printers to medical devices. In June a collection of 19 vulnerabilities in this software was disclosed – affecting millions of devices from 50 different vendors. The collection of vulnerabilitiesRead more
A Zero-Day Remote Code Execution vulnerability affects 79 different Netgear routers With the significant increase in home-working due to the COVID pandemic, the security of home workers’ connectivity is under scrutiny. Security researchers have detailed a serious vulnerability in the firmware of many Netgear routers popular in small and home office set-ups. The vulnerability existsRead more
Amazon Web Services has revealed that in May 2020 it deflected the largest ever recorded DDoS attack. The previous largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack had been against GitHub in 2018 which was measured at 1.3 Terabits (Thousand Billion bits per second) – the attack against AWS in May was almost double at 2.3Read more
Verizon has published their 13th annual Data Breach Investigations Report – and it focuses on security incidents and breaches that occurred during 2019. The 2020 DBIR analysed 157,525 incidents, 32,002 in detail and confirmed 3950 breaches in 81 countries. Although the scope is global, half of the incidents in the data come from North AmericaRead more
Security software provider LastPass has published their third Annual Global Password Security Report which reveals the extent of password reuse. LastPass has analysed the anonymised data and usage patterns of their enterprise password vault used by 47,000 organisations around the world. Some key data points from the report: For Businesses under 25 employees the averageRead more
VideoLAN has released a patch for their popular VLC Media player software to resolve a remote code execution vulnerability The VLC open source media player is widely used in domestic and enterprise environments for playback of all kinds of video files and digital signage applications. In a security bulletin, the developer state that: If successful, a maliciousRead more
Security Awareness Training is an essential component of any organisation’s information security. Even though it is mandated by frameworks such as PCI-DSS or ISO 27001, Security Awareness Training should be more than just a compliance exercise. A good security awareness training programme will drive changes in behaviour amongst staff, suppliers and customers that will improveRead more
The developers of the OpenSSH implementation of Secure Shell have announced their intention to drop support for SHA-1 in a ‘near future release.’ OpenSSH is used by millions of system administrators to securely access networked systems. OpenSSH supports various encryption algorithms and the decision to drop support for SHA-1 comes as recent research demonstrates itRead more
In June 2020 Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fixes a record 129 defects and vulnerabilities in its software – with a further 19 patches in the June Microsoft Office patch bundle. This continues a recent trend of ever-increasing numbers of patches included in the monthly updates from Microsoft (the two previous highest number of patches were inRead more
