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Tuesday, 08 February 2022 12:34
Microsoft Begins Blocking their Own App Web Installer Files
Written by Sean Kalinich
The concept of the app as opposed to the application is one of those nuanced distinctions that miss many people. When it comes to a mobile device an app is a bundle that that allows the installation of an application…
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Tuesday, 08 February 2022 10:46
Android Banking Trojan Medusa Piggybacking on FluBot’s Deliver System
Written by Sean Kalinich
The rise of the smart device meant that more and more people were going to be using these for more than just communication. Mobile banking, mobile home automation, mobile car monitoring, you name it, there is probably an app for…
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Tuesday, 08 February 2022 07:29
Microsoft is Finally Blocking Downloaded Macros by Default in Office
Written by Sean Kalinich
Back in the late 90s’ the first macro viruses appeared on the scene. The leveraged a feature of Microsoft Office that allowed a malware developer to execute programmed instructions via the office interface. This new option opened a lot of…
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Monday, 07 February 2022 12:43
CISA Sends “Patch Now” Notice on MS Vulnerability Patched in January
Written by Sean Kalinich
A vulnerability disclosed and patched in January is rearing its ugly head. Identified as CVE-2022-21882, this vulnerability affects Windows 10, 11 and Windows Server. On its own it is a significant threat since is allows for a privilege escalation that…
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Monday, 07 February 2022 10:41
Golang Becoming a Primary Language in the Attacker’s Tool Kit
Written by Sean Kalinich
The Go Programing Language (Go or Golang) was developed back in 2007 by a few engineers who were working at Google at the time. Go was launched in 2009 as an open-source programing language and it is primarily used in…
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Monday, 07 February 2022 08:32
New Bug in Container Deployment Tool, Argo, Puts Container Environments at Risk
Written by Sean Kalinich
Containers are a popular item with cloud-based infrastructure. The idea of running low-cost (from a resource standpoint) systems to handle work loads while maintaining a higher level of security is a nice one. Making this type of decision does not…
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Friday, 04 February 2022 11:44
Recent North Korean Internet Outages Potentially Caused by One Person with a Grudge
Written by Sean Kalinich
In early January 2021 North Korean hackers were in the midst of a campaign targeting western security researchers. They were looking to gather tools, vulnerability information and anything else of value they could get. The US, after learning about this…
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Friday, 04 February 2022 10:23
First provable SHA-1 Collision Happened Five Years Ago Yet SHA-1 is Still an Option.
Written by Sean Kalinich
On February 23rd, 2017, Google published a paper on their security blog that showed how a SHA-1 collision was possible. It proved that the aging cryptographic and hashing standard was no longer a safe or secure method. Google showed that…
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Friday, 04 February 2022 08:41
New Vulnerability Found that Exposes a Large Number Routers to UPnProxy Attack
Written by Sean Kalinich
Universal Plug and Play UPnP) is one of those technology decisions that make you wonder what people were thinking. The concept is fairly clear, find a way to make things easy for someone to just connect a device to a…
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Friday, 04 February 2022 07:29
Apple iOS Privacy Changes take a $10 Billion Chunk Out of Facebook’s Ad Plans.
Written by Sean Kalinich
Facebook makes their money off their users. That is no shock to anyone considering the number of investigations currently ongoing over Facebook’s data collection practices. Of course, Facebook is not the only group collecting this type of information, they just…
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Thursday, 03 February 2022 06:59
Microsoft Identifies New and Improved UpdateAgent macOS Malware
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team has recently disclosed their discovery and analysis of a new malware family. The malware in question is being tracked as a Trojan named UpdateAgent. The team has been watching as it progressed from a simple information…
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Wednesday, 02 February 2022 13:41
SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack is the Gift that Keeps on Giving for Security Research
Written by Sean Kalinich
The SolarWinds supply chain attack was and still is one of the most complex and ingenious attacks that has come to light. How it was discovered is also an interesting topic for another conversation. The attack group in question is…
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Wednesday, 02 February 2022 09:41
23 vulnerabilities found in UEFI firmware used across multiple vendors
Written by Sean Kalinich
We first talked about the using the UEFI firmware as an attack vector (At Def Con 22 in 2014). Since that time there have been three identified and disclosed versions of malware that directly targeted this critical subsystem. That would…
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Tuesday, 01 February 2022 10:39
Device Fingerprinting Takes a Step Forward as the GPU Becomes the Focus
Written by Sean Kalinich
Tracking users and devices as they browse the web is a common thing these days and has been for many years. The technology has evolved from the original tracking cookie to some of the more advanced methods in use now,…
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Tuesday, 01 February 2022 07:24
Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Samba Again, New Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution
Written by Sean Kalinich
Samba has released several updates that patch critical flaws in their popular Sever Message Block (SMB) freeware implementation. SMB is a protocol that allows for simple sharing of network resources and has had its share of critical vulnerabilities in the…
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Monday, 31 January 2022 14:49
New Apps Allow Retrieval of Deleted Message for Users of WhatsApp on Android
Written by Sean Kalinich
WhatsApp is one of a group of relatively secure messaging services available to both iPhone and Android users. WhatsApp states that it supports full end-to-end encryption, secure deletion of messages (by the sender and receiver) as well as the option…
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