Controversy over social media giant TikTok has continued to soar in 2020. In July, WatchGuard CTO Corey Nachreiner explained the true personal privacy and security risks associated with using such foreign-based apps in the first segment of a two-part series for Forbes. His … Read More
BlackHat 2020 Recap
With BlackHat’s online-only 2020 edition conference in the bag we take a look back at a few of our favorite briefings and discuss the takeaways as they apply to our industry. … [Read More...]
WatchGuard’s Michelle Welch and Shari McLaren Honored in Cyber Defense Magazine’s Top 100 Women in Cybersecurity for 2020
As part of its annual Black Unicorn Awards program, Cyber Defense Magazine has named WatchGuard’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Channel, Michelle Welch, and Senior … [Read More...]
BlackHat and DEF CON Online
With the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences starting this week, albeit in an online-only mode, we decided to take a look through this year’s agenda and pick some of … [Read More...]
Meowing Databases
This week on The 443 – Security Simplified we discuss yet another alert from the UK National Cyber Security Center, this time on cyber-attacks targeting sporting organizations. We also take a quick dive into Meowing, a wave of destructive hacking that’s been targeting … [Read More...]
GRUB2 Boot Hole Breaks Secure Boot For Now
On Wednesday of this week, Eclypsium released a report on a vulnerability in GRUB2 that affects millions of devices with few exceptions. Normally used on a Linux system, GRUB2 … [Read More...]
Garmin Suffers Massive WastedLocker Ransomware Attack
Last Thursday, the GPS and smartwatch firm Garmin suffered what was allegedly a massive, system-wide ransomware attack, forcing them to take down all of their services ranging … [Read More...]
New Research Reveals Sexist Tendencies in Facial Recognition Tech
Recently Amazon, Microsoft, and others have taken a step back to review the use of their own face recognition software. Some users of this technology may use only face recognition to identify a person. This idea that you only need the face recognition software to identify a … [Read More...]
US Court Details State Sponsored Hackers From China
According to the indictment from the Eastern District of Washington, for at least the last 10 years hacker’s Li and Dong, sponsored by China, targeted US and international … [Read More...]
Innovative Social Distancing Technology for the Post COVID-19 Pandemic
What is the new normal? One of the biggest challenges facing businesses today is navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Opening and keeping businesses going … [Read More...]
