LastPass Hacked – Leaking Passwords is not new, last week its Firefox extension was picked apart – now this week it’s Chrome extension is giving up its goodies. I’ve always found LastPass a bit suspect, even though they are super easy to use, and have a nice UI they’ve had TOO many serious security issues […]
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Why Are Hackers Winning The Security Game?
A lot of people and companies get complacent and don’t believe the hackers are winning, but trust me they are. So we have to ask, why are hackers winning the security game? What’s putting them ahead of the security teams and CISOs inside organizations. It’s an old story anyway, the Hackers always win in some […]
Microsoft Breaks Network Connectivity For Windows 8 & 10 Users
Microsoft breaks network connectivity for many Windows 8 and 10 users just in time for Christmas – what a lovely gift. It’s related to the network stack (obviously) but seems to be specific to DHCP, so if you statically assign your LAN addresses (like most of us probably do) then you’ll be alright. And if […]
The Dyn DNS DDoS That Killed Half The Internet
Last week the Dyn DNS DDoS took out most of the East coast US websites including monsters like Spotify, Twitter, Netflix, Github, Heroku and many more. Hopefully it wasn’t because I shared the Mirai source code and some script kiddies got hold of it and decided to take half of the US websites out. A […]
Mirai Source Code for DDoS Malware Bonet Leaked
So there’s been some HUGE DDoS attacks going on lately, up to 620Gbps and the Mirai source code DDoS Malware bonet has been fingered – with the source code also being leaked. It’s spreading like wildfire too, and the scariest thought? All that was really needed to construct it was a telnet scanner and a […]