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Proprietary Software and Security Leftovers

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 13th of August 2021 09:04:20 AM Filed under
Security
  • The Massive Army of Volunteers That Built AOL in the 90s

    Whatever the case, during the 1980s and 1990s, it was very common for many online networks to rely on the unpaid services of their users to help onboard or support others within their communities, a role that would later be taken on instead by paid individuals.

  • Ransomware attacks increased by 64% in last one year: Report [iophk: Windows TCO]

    Barracuda, a cloud-enabled security solutions provider, in its latest Threat Spotlight, analysed 121 ransomware incidents between August 2020 and July 2021.

    They found many attacks are being led by a handful of high-profile ransomware gangs.

  • Why No HTTPS? The 2021 Version

    More than 3 years ago now, Scott Helme and I launched a little project called Why No HTTPS? It listed the world's largest websites that didn't properly redirect insecure requests to secure ones. We updated it December before last and pleasingly, noted that more websites than ever were doing the right thing and forcing browsers down the secure path. That's the good news, the bad news is that there are still some really wacky, unexplainable anti-HTTPS views out there, but those voices are increasingly less relevant as the browsers march forward: [...]

  • All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability

    Until February this year, Amazon Route53's DNS service offered largely unappreciated network eavesdropping capabilities. And this undocumented spying option was also available at Google Cloud DNS and at least one other DNS-as-a-service provider.

  • Black Hat security conference returns to Las Vegas – complete with hacks to quiet the hotel guest from hell • The Register

    After a year off due to a certain virus, the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences returned to Las Vegas last week, just in time for the US government's attempts to foster more collaboration across the infosec industry.

    The newly appointed Security Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency Jen Easterly took to the virtual Black Hat stage last week (although there was a limited and well-spaced physical conference this year) and announced the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), which she claimed would be a true public/private partnership to try to lock down security incidents by sharing data and skills.

  • A Critical Random Number Generator Flaw Affects Billions of IoT Devices

    A critical vulnerability has been disclosed in hardware random number generators used in billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices whereby it fails to properly generate random numbers, thus undermining their security and putting them at risk of attacks.

  • What are Command Injection vulnerabilities?

    Command injection vulnerabilities are probably one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities that can happen in an application.

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