This posting is here to collect cyber security news December 2020. I post links to security vulnerability news with short descriptions to comments section of this article. If you are interested in cyber security trends, read my Cyber security trends 2020 posting. You are also free to post related links to comments. →
This posting is here to collect cyber security news November 2020. I post links to security vulnerability news with short descriptions to comments section of this article. If you are interested in cyber security trends, read my Cyber security trends 2020 posting. You are also free to post related links to comments. →
Data breach notifications have become an all-too-regular exercise in crisis communications that increasingly try to deflect blame, obfuscate important details and omit important facts. The next time you get a data breach notification, read between the lines. For instructions how to do that read How to decode a data breach notice article at https://tcrn.ch/2WMqUjm. Know →
Bombshell data breach ransom incident exploded in Finland. Psychotherapy center Vastaamo patient records were breached and ransom demands for not publishing data was sent to both company and patients. Patient data of 300 were already published on-line. Vastaamo, which has branches throughout the Nordic country of 5.5 million and operates as a sub-contractor for Finland’s →
Security standard for consumer IoT emerges. ETSI approved and published its standard ETSI EN 303 645 V2.1.1 (2020-06) – Cyber Security for Consumer Internet of Things: Baseline Requirements in June 2020. This puts it on track for final approval and release later this year. The standard specifies the high-level security and data protection provisions that →
This posting is here to collect cyber security news October 2020. I post links to security vulnerability news with short descriptions to comments section of this article. If you are interested in cyber security trends, read my Cyber security trends 2020 posting. You are also free to post related links to comments. →
Those sources seem toi indicate that some older Microsoft Windows versions seem to have gone “open source” without proper license… Microsoft’s source code for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 has reported to be leaked online. Torrent files for both operating systems’ source code have been published on various file sharing sites this week. 43GB →
Ransomware has become deadly! It does not kill just company profits, it has started also to kill people. Ransomware attack at German hospital leads to death of patient https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-attack-at-german-hospital-leads-to-death-of-patient/ “A person in a life-threatening condition passed away after being forced to go to a more distant hospital due to a ransomware attack.” German Hospital Hacked, →
This posting is here to collect cyber security news September 2020. I post links to security vulnerability news with short descriptions to comments section of this article. If you are interested in cyber security trends, read my Cyber security trends 2020 posting. You are also free to post related links to comments. →
Security researchers say they have developed a new technique to detect modern cell-site simulators. Little is known about stingrays that exploit flaws in the way that cell phones connect to 2G cell networks, because they are deliberately shrouded in secrecy. Most of those flaws are fixed in the 4G networks, though not all. Newer cell →