After day 3 of RSAC 2018, WatchGuard’s own Corey Nachreiner and Marc Laliberte are back once again to bring the highlights of the show directly to you. Today, Marc saw a presentation from a FireEye researcher about tracking a North Korean threat actor that primarily dealt in cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency-based attacks. This group targets North Korean rivals and countries … [Read more...]
2018 RSAC Recap: Day 2 – Daily Security Byte
As RSAC 2018 continues, Corey Nachreiner and Marc Laliberte got together again to discuss their favorite sessions at the show this week. One of the talks that really caught Corey’s attention covered the most dangerous hacks out there today. A few examples included in this presentation were hardware vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre, issues in code repositories and … [Read more...]
2018 RSAC Recap: Day 1 – Daily Security Byte
It’s an exciting week at the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco. Corey Nachreiner and Marc Laliberte sat down for a few minutes to talk about their favorite aspects of the show so far. Marc attended a fascinating presentation by the Head of R&D and a Fellow at SANS Institute, which covered the difficulties involved in identifying vulnerabilities within low-level Windows … [Read more...]
1000s of Hacked Web Sites – Daily Security Byte
According to a MalwareBytes researcher, hackers have hijacked thousands of legitimate web sites that use the WordPress, Joomla, and SquareSpace content management systems (CMS). Once these attackers gain access to these CMS systems, they inject malicious JavaScript into the sites that redirect unsuspecting victims to malicious downloads. Watch the video below to learn more … [Read more...]
April 2018 Patch Day – Daily Security Byte
Every month, Microsoft releases a bunch of security updates on the second Tuesday of the month. In April, their updates fix well over 60 vulnerabilities in all of their most popular software packages. Watch the video belwo for a brief summary of the updates, and be sure to deploy the patches as soon as you can. Show note: As you can tell from this video, I'll shoot many of … [Read more...]
