All posts by Chris Tribbey
Lenovo Patches Vulnerabilities in System Update Service (Threat Post)
Lenovo has patched two serious vulnerabilities that hackers could abuse in targeted attacks, or at scale, to easily guess administrator passwords on a compromised device, or elevat... More
Dell Releases Fix for Root Certificate Fail (Bank Info Security)
Dell is moving to patch a homegrown application installed on many of its devices after information security researchers discovered that it installed a root certificate that cou... More
CISO Proposes Cyber Security Co-Op to Fend off Hackers (CIO)
Jim Motes believes he has a solution to the glaring shortage in cybersecurity talent, which renders corporations more vulnerable to hackers. The CISO of Rockwell Automation propose... More
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, November 29, 2015 (Citadel Information Group)
Important Security Updates Adobe Acrobat/Reader: Adobe has released version 15.009.20079 of Acrobat and Reader. Updates are available through the program or from Adobe’s websi... More
Content Protection Summit Keynote: Fiction Meeting Reality in Cyber Warfare (CDSA)
The military is looking to the storytellers of Hollywood, video games and fiction for clues about the future of war, security and geopolitics, according to futurist and best-sellin... More
Google Asked to Remove 1,500 ‘Pirate Links’ Per Minute (TorrentFreak)
In recent years copyright holders have flooded Google with DMCA takedown notices, asking the company to delete links to pirated content. The number of requests issued has increase... More
Report: Everyone Should Get a Security Freeze (Krebs on Security)
Each time news of a major data breach breaks, the hacked organization arranges free credit monitoring for all customers potentially at risk from the intrusion. But as I’ve echoed... More
BitLocker Encryption can be Defeated with Trivial Windows Authentication Bypass (PC World)
Companies relying on Microsoft BitLocker to encrypt the drives of their employees’ computers should install the latest Windows patches immediately. A researcher disclosed a triv... More
Cybersecurity Sector’s Biggest Challenge … And It’s Not The Hackers (PYMNTS.com)
The security certification and industry body (ISC)2 predicts that 6 million security professionals will be needed by both the public and private sectors by 2019. Unfortunately, on... More
The State of Cyber Insurance (Network World)
All this year I’ve been researching the burgeoning cyber insurance market. Admittedly, this is a bit of a detour from covering endpoint security, network security, and security a... More
Recent Email Phishing Campaigns – Mitigation and Response Recommendations (U.S.-Cert)
Between June and July 2015, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) received reports of multiple, ongoing and likely evolving, email-based phishing campaigns ... More
VMware Warns of Info Leaks Flowing from Apache-Adobe Mess (The Register)
VMware has warned users of its vCenter, vCloud Director and Horizon products that they need to patch a flaw in Flex BlazeDS. The flaw, CVE-2015-3269, means Apache Flex BlazeDS �... More
Encrypted Messaging Apps Face New Scrutiny Over Possible Role in Paris Attacks (New York Times)
American and French officials say there is still no definitive evidence to back up their presumption that the terrorists who massacred 129 people in Paris used new, difficult-to-cr... More
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, November 22, 2015 (Citadel Information Group)
Important Security Updates Avira Free Antivirus: Avira has released version 15.0.14.259 of its free Antivirus. Updates are available from Avira’s website. Evernote: Everno... More
Aspera Uses SC15 to Show Off Data Transfer Advancements
Aspera, IBM’s high-speed file transfer software arm, will use this week’s SC15 Conference in Austin, Texas to showcase several new innovations for data transfer between computi... More
Experts See Expansion in M&E Security Practices
By Chris Tribbey A series of well-publicized security incidents over the past twelve months have put the media and entertainment industry on notice that its operations and content... More
Ransomware Now Gunning for Your Web Sites (Krebs on Security)
One of the more common and destructive computer crimes to emerge over the past few years involves ransomware — malicious code that quietly scrambles all of the infected user�... More
Five Secrets to Security Success (Bank Info Security)
If there was a self-help book for the information security community, the title might be: "What Got You Here Won't Get You There." Of course, that title has already been taken -... More
Solving Security: If You Want Something New, Stop Doing Something Old (Dark Reading)
Black Hat Europe keynote speaker Haroon Meer, founder of Thinkst, took some shots at a few sacred security cows Thursday during the opening session at RAI Amsterdam Thursday. His p... More
