Researchers at Bromium have discovered an interesting new malware campaign specifically targeting Italy. Attackers are spamming malicious Excel documents to Italian victims. If you open the malicious Excel document, it leverages Powershell to filelessly begin the infection, but ultimately downloads and executes the Grandcrab family of ransomware. Ironically, the malicious Excel … [Read more...]
Apple Fixes FaceTime Flaw – Security Byte
Last week I warned you about a serious FaceTime flaw that could allow malicious attackers to snoop through your iPhone’s camera and mic by starting a malicious group call. Apple credited a 14-year-old boy for reporting this vulnerability. This week, Apple released updates to fix this FaceTime issue, and a few others that attackers are exploiting in the wild. Watch today’s video … [Read more...]
reCAPTCHA Roundup
This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we discuss two news events involving bug bounties. The first event involves a security researcher withholding details of a critical flaw in Mac OS because of Apple’s lack of a bug bounty program, and the second involves a researcher that was allegedly assaulted by a vendor while following up on promises of a payment. After that … [Read more...]
Vendor Assaults Security Researcher – Security Byte
Vendors and security researchers haven’t always gotten along, but when one physically assaults the other you know things have gone way off course. A pair of UK-based security researchers found many critical flaws in a vendor’s gambling player reward systems. All signs suggest that these researchers did their best—really going beyond the call of duty—to report these flaws to … [Read more...]
What to Know About Programming Languages
This article is going to expand on this past post just a tad. By that I mean I will cover what differentiates higher-level application and programming languages (Python or C) and lower-level programming languages (machine language and assembly language) – nothing too extensive, just more for a clearer understanding of what to know about programming languages work – as this … [Read more...]
