Last week, Facebook had what many think is its longest outage ever. As one might expect, many worried that a cyber attack may have caused the outage. In today’s video, Corey clears that up and discusses how a simple server configuration mistake can lead to a cascading failure. Watch the video below. Episode Runtime: 2:38 Direct YouTube Link: … [Read more...]
March 2019 Patch Tuesday – Security Byte
As always, the second Tuesday of March is both Microsoft and Adobe patch day. This month’s Microsoft’s updates take the spotlight at they fix two critical vulnerabilities that attackers are exploiting in the wild, as well as many other serious non-exploited ones. Adobe, on the other hand, only released relatively minor patches for Photoshop and Digital Editions. Watch our video … [Read more...]
Chrome 0day in the Wild – Security Byte
Last week, the Chrome team warned that attackers were exploiting a zero day vulnerability in the popular browser in the wild. At a high level, Chrome’s FileReader suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability that attackers could exploit to escape Chrome’s sandbox and execute code. The criminals exploiting the flaw are also leveraging a Windows vulnerability as well. Watch the … [Read more...]
Citrix Data Breach – Security Byte
Late last week, Citrix warned that they had suffered a network breach. According to reports, the attackers made off with six terabytes of business documents. Since Citrix learned of the breach from external sources (Resecurity and the FBI), they’re still investigating the full impact of the breach, and whether or not it affects their customers or products. Watch today’s video … [Read more...]
Critical Cisco VPN Router Flaw – Security Byte
Recently, Cisco released a software update for a critical vulnerability in their Wireless-N VPN Routers. If you expose the management page remotely, an attacker can totally take over your router with a single web query. Researchers disclosed the flaw to Cisco six months ago and they just patched it last week. If you're a Cisco customer that uses this particular router, watch … [Read more...]
