Automated smokers like the Green Mountain Grill (GMG) Davy Crockett are great for smoking different meats and other foods without having to tend the grill during the entire process. GMG has pushed this idea further with a WIFI controller that monitors and controls the grill. Now, one doesn’t even need to leave the couch to maintain the grill. Unfortunately though, this … [Read more...]
5 Security Tips for Spring Cleaning Season
Spring is well underway and summer is just around the corner. If you haven’t gotten around to giving your network a good spring cleaning yet, now is the perfect time to step back and sweep out the cobwebs to improve your security posture. In his latest guest article for Help Net Security, WatchGuard’s Sr. Security Researcher, Marc Laliberte, suggests a few key tips you can use … [Read more...]
CERT VPN Application Vulnerabilities: Is WatchGuard Affected?
Vulnerability Overview On April 14th, Carnegie Mellon University’s CERT Coordination Center released vulnerability advisory VU#192371, which disclosed security vulnerabilities in several mobile VPN clients from multiple vendors. In general, the disclosed vulnerabilities involved insecure storage of authentication and session information. Researchers found that some VPN … [Read more...]
[2x Security Vulnerabilities] Google Chrome and Windows
In a Tweet by Justin Schuh posted on Twitter on March 5th, he wrote “Also, seriously, update your Chrome installs… like right this minute. #PSA.” Justin is a leading security & desktop engineer for Google Chrome. Within that Tweet is this link, leading to a blog post from the Chrome team written on Friday, March 1st that states a stable channel update was release (version … [Read more...]
Password Manager Vulnerabilities – Security Byte
On Tuesday, a Washington Post article disclosed new password manager research from the Independant Security Evaluators (ISE), who found many vulnerabilities in a number of the most popular password managers. In a nutshell, local attackers could exploit these flaws to unveil some of your clear text passwords, and in the worst case, even the clear text master password. That said, … [Read more...]
