Vulnerability Overview On April 14th, Carnegie Mellon University’s CERT Coordination Center released vulnerability advisory VU#192371, which disclosed security vulnerabilities in several mobile VPN clients from multiple vendors. In general, the disclosed vulnerabilities involved insecure storage of authentication and session information. Researchers found that some VPN … [Read more...]
Marc Laliberte
Marc Laliberte is a Sr. Security Analyst at WatchGuard Technologies. Marc joined the WatchGuard team in 2012. Specializing in networking security technologies, Marc’s responsibilities include researching and reporting on modern information security trends.
With speaking appearances and regular contributions to online IT publications, Marc is a thought leader providing security guidance to all levels of IT personnel.
Twitter: @XORRO_
Our Vaporworm Prediction Arrives Early
In one of our 2019 Security Predictions, we predicted a future where self-propagating, fileless malware “vaporworms” run rampant. This week, Trend Micro announced in a blog post that this future came earlier than we anticipated. In their write up, Trend Micro analyzes a newly discovered fileless variant of the BLADABINDI remote access trojan (RAT) that added self-propagation … [Read more...]
Overlooked IoT
On this week’s episode of The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover a vulnerability in a popular video game that recently came to Android and the latest in the seemingly never-ending cycle of data breaches. Then, we shed some light on a sector of IoT that doesn’t seem to garner as much attention as hacked cameras and medical equipment, but still poses security risks to companies. … [Read more...]
Beyond Bitcoin
If you aren’t familiar with cryptocurrency and haven’t already read our cryptocurrency primer, now would be a good time to do so. In the primer, we go over the basics of cryptocurrency using Bitcoin, the first and most famous coin, as an example. Bitcoin was the first true cryptocurrency, and it is still to this day the most valuable one both in terms of price per coin and … [Read more...]
Hacking Outside the Box
This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover the DNC phishing scare that triggered an alert to the FBI, and a targeted ransomware attack demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in payment. We then talk about a few outside the box hacks where researchers discovered unique ways to compromise potential targets. … [Read more...]
