Mr. Robot season three keeps speeding along like an overclocked Alienware rig, maintaining its fast-paced plot throughout episode two while dropping plenty of new hacks along the way. As always, WatchGuard’s CTO, Corey Nachreiner, examines the technical accuracy of each show in his weekly Mr. Robot Rewind article series. One hack that played out pretty true to life this week … [Read more...]
Emergency Flash 0day Patch – Daily Security Byte
After skipping their normal monthly patch day for the first time in years, Adobe was forced to release an emergency update to fix a zero day Flash vulnerability that attackers are exploiting in the wild. According to Kaspersky, criminals are leveraging this flaw in spear phishing emails that contain malicious, Flash-embedded Office documents. If you open one of these … [Read more...]
Krack WPA2 Attacks – Daily Security Byte
In the early 2000s, you probably remember when researchers discovered some vulnerabilities that put the nail in the coffin of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), a security protocol used to protect Wi-Fi communications. Essentially, this WEP vulnerability meant that attackers could quickly crack WEP encryption, and see all your wireless traffic. At the time, this flaw caused a … [Read more...]
Mr. Robot Returns for Season Three – And So Does ‘Mr. Robot Rewind’
The lengthy break after Mr. Robot season two is finally over! That’s right, it’s time for a weekly dose of everyone’s favorite vigilante hacker drama. Once again, WatchGuard CTO, Corey Nachreiner, is writing his weekly “Mr. Robot Rewind” article series on GeekWire, analyzing the accuracy of the hacks and tech in each new episode. So, what’s new with Elliot, Fsociety and E Corp … [Read more...]
The Problem with Hacking Back: It Might Be Your Network
The US government is considering allowing companies to “hack back” against cyber attackers. The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (ACDC) amends the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to allow limited retaliatory strikes against cyber attackers. The full PDF amendment is available online. As noted in some comments in an article on the UK Register there is some skepticism about this … [Read more...]
