Router Hacks, WordPress Attack, and Huge Oracle Update During a week of such tragedy, it's hard to give much thought to network and information security (InfoSec). Yet, we must stay vigilant, lest abhorrent cyber criminals leverage such tragedies against us in social networking campaigns. In this week's InfoSec news summary, I cover Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 59 – Android PlaneSploit
CISPA, Game Dev Breaches, and Android Plane Hack Though I'm traveling in Singapore for a security conference, I still found a few spare minutes for my weekly InfoSec news summary. This week I cover some Bitcoin mining malware, CISPA returning from the ashes, some game related network attacks, and most interestingly, an Android smartphone hacking an airplane. For the details, … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 59 – Android PlaneSploit
CISPA, Game Dev Breaches, and Android Plane Hack Though I'm traveling in Singapore for a security conference, I still found a few spare minutes for my weekly InfoSec news summary. This week I cover some Bitcoin mining malware, CISPA returning from the ashes, some game related network attacks, and most interestingly, an Android smartphone hacking an airplane. For the details, … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 58 – Darkleech Apache Attack
Telephony DoS, OpFreeKorea, and Darkleech What do zombie video games, North Korea, and emergency telephone systems have in common? They've all been compromised by cyber attackers this week. If you're too busy dousing IT fires to keep up with InfoSec news on your own, give our weekly security news summary a try. In this short video, I quickly highlight the biggest security … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 57 – 300Gb DDoS
POS Trojans, Android Spear Phishing, and Record DDoS Extra, Extra, the Internet almost broke (no it didn't). Read... View all about it! Too much security news, and too little time? Let me summarize the highlights for you in my weekly InfoSec recap video. This week I cover two trojans targeting point-of-sale (POS) computers, a few software updates, a targeted spear phishing … [Read more...]