Welcome back to another episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. This week, we cover three major news stories from the past week including the NordVPN breach, Facebook suing a zero-day development firm, and the latest attack from North Korea’s Lazarus Group. … [Read more...]
Set Employees Free with Security That Travels
With the average person managing 90 accounts that require a username and password, and credential-stealing malware on the rise, your users are firmly in the crosshairs of cyber criminals. At the same time, the drive toward workplace flexibility and desire to empower people to work where they are most comfortable challenges some foundations of cyber security. More work than ever … [Read more...]
Face Recognition For Purchasing is Still a Novelty
Now you can pay for your drink using just your face in China, but only for some. Chinese face recognition vending machine. No cash, card, or phone needed. pic.twitter.com/tDN0pMitA4 — Matthew Brennan (@mbrennanchina) August 21, 2019 A video recently posted to Twitter shows a woman who has walked up to a vending machine press a button on a screen before standing in front of … [Read more...]
Additional WPA3 Dragonblood Vulnerabilities
The same security researchers that disclosed the initial five WPA3 vulnerabilities (referred to as Dragonblood) earlier this year in April, have recently disclosed two additional WPA3 vulnerabilities. Just like the initial five Dragonblood vulnerabilities, these two new ones allow attackers to either downgrade or bypass WPA3 encryption protected networks via brute force … [Read more...]
The first 18 months of Data Breach regulation in Australia: my thoughts
Since its inception in February 2018, the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme (NDB scheme) in Australia has delivered some very interesting results, which we can all learn from. The NDB is a legal requirement imposed by the OAIC (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner) on organizations of all sizes to notify individuals of eligible data breaches. In her 12 … [Read more...]
