Denial of service (DoS) flaws may not seem all that severe when they affect desktop clients. However, when they affect your DNS server they can cause organization wide outages. If you use ISC BIND, watch today's video to learn about the update that fixes three DoS vulnerabilities in the popular DNS daemon. (Episode Runtime: 2:10) Direct YouTube … [Read more...]
Critical BIND DoS – Daily Security Byte EP.121
The most popular DNS server on the market, BIND, suffers from a new denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that's trivial to exploit. Watch today's episode to learn what to do. (Episode Runtime: 1:21) Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxsRs9Ll2-g EPISODE REFERENCES: BIND suffers from easy to exploit DoS flaw - SC Magazine Another good description of the … [Read more...]
Hacking Nation States & Crashing iPhones – WSWiR Episode 154
Unfortunately, lots of security news suggests lots of cyber crime. If you want to stay protected, you need to keep up to date; but who has time? Hopefully our weekly InfoSec video can help. Last Friday's episode covered an IRS data leak, a mysterious text message that crashed iPhones, some scary new crowd-sourced ransomware, and more. Watch the YouTube video below for all the … [Read more...]
iOS Crash Text – Daily Security Byte EP.89
High schoolers around the nation likely woke up to randomly rebooting iPhones due to pranksters exploiting a mysterious new flaw triggered by a simple text message. The news of this malicious text started on Reddit, but quickly spread as security researchers and the press jumped on the issue. Learn more about it in today's video. (Episode Runtime: 2:20) Direct YouTube … [Read more...]
OpenSSL DoS – Daily Security Byte EP.48
This week the information security (InfoSec) community was abuzz about an upcoming critical OpenSSL update. Would it fix the next FREAK or Heartbleed? Nope. It was much less severe than expected. Nonetheless, watch today's video to learn how quickly you should patch. (Episode Runtime: 1:55) Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkehIk0KDaw EPISODE … [Read more...]
