Sifting through the most recent cybersecurity-related news may seem daunting, and keeping up with the latest developments is arduous. However, the WatchGuard Threat Lab is happy to filter through the latest cybersecurity news and highlight some stories we believe are important, noteworthy, or interesting. The goal is to focus on a few recent cybersecurity-related stories, … [Read more...]
Mozilla and DNS over HTTPS
If you’re a privacy-centric individual, this post is for you. Mozilla, the creator of Firefox, has championed the new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard known as DNS over HTTPS (DoH). This isn’t a new concept, as Mozilla wrote about this back in 2018, but I only now came across their post describing it. Aside from the post explaining how DoH works, they also break … [Read more...]
Concerned with What Data Facebook Has Stored About You?
If you’re one of the 2.8B people that uses Facebook and are at least somewhat privacy-centric, I urge you to check out Facebook’s new Off-Facebook Activity settings option. For me, it was found within the Your Facebook Information section. There wasn’t too much within it for me, but The Hacker News’s Mohit Kumar wrote about his experience with this and there were over 1,000 … [Read more...]
Hospital Horror Stories!
Disclaimer: don’t read this if you don’t want your sense of security involving medical information shattered. This post is based on a Skytalk presented at Def Con 27. The presenter opted to redact their name for privacy concerns. What made this talk quite startling was the fact that the presenter supports over 25 hospitals around the US and has insight of just how poor … [Read more...]
