This post arrives later than usual, but as they say, "Better late than never." Researchers and the media have highlighted various unique, interesting, or destructive vulnerabilities in the last few weeks. We decided to pick three of these vulnerabilities and talk about them. One was patched with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday in March; another affects the privacy of almost everyone, … [Read more...]
InfoSec News Weekly Wrap-Up October 8th, 2021
SMS Routing Company Syniverse Discloses Breach Spanning 5 Years Syniverse claims to be “the world’s most connected company” serving so many large telecommunication companies that it should be assumed that your provider is one of their customers. Their reach is significant, acting as the intermediary for text messages between carriers and routing calls between networks. The … [Read more...]
US Agencies Have Been Busy
U.S. Agencies have been making headlines recently for a lot of their new cyber related regulations. The following are several noteworthy of examples of what they have been up to. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Robocalls The FCC expects phone carriers to block illegal robocalls from providers not yet registered with the Robocall Mitigation Database. The … [Read more...]
SolarWinds Catch-Up
Swift new developments have continued to pour out on the SolarWinds breach. Under normal circumstances it is difficult to keep up to date on the news and especially so with a story that continues to grow. Nevertheless, the Threat Lab team at WatchGuard has been keeping an eye out on the latest updates. Beyond the major players such as FireEye, Microsoft, CISA, and SolarWinds, … [Read more...]
