Summer holidays: Testing, quarantine and 'vacci-cations'
Travel journalists explain what some of the issues might be if you are thinking of going abroad.
Intel, AMD Dispute Findings on Chip Vulnerabilities
Endpoint Security , Hardware / Chip-level Security After Researchers Release Report, Chipmakers Assert That No New Defenses Are Needed Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • May 6, 2021 Intel and AMD are disputing the findings of researchers from two universities who say they’ve discovered new attacks on Intel and AMD processors that can bypass most…
Newly Patched Peloton API Flaws Exposed Users’ Private Data
Application Security , Endpoint Security , Incident & Breach Response Pen Test Partners: Millions Could Have Had Data Exposed Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • May 6, 2021 Photo: Peloton Security researchers say API flaws could have exposed the private data of millions of Peloton fitness equipment online service users for months before they…
'People are not following Covid-19 measures'
Despite repeated warnings many ignore coronavirus safety procedures, a doctor in West Bengal says.
Newly Patched Peloton API Flaws Exposed Users’ Private Data
Application Security , Endpoint Security , Incident & Breach Response Pen Test Partners: Millions Could Have Had Data Exposed Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • May 6, 2021 Photo: Peloton Security researchers say API flaws could have exposed the private data of millions of Peloton fitness equipment online service users for months before they…
Millions of Dell Devices Vulnerable to Update Driver Flaw
Endpoint Security , Governance & Risk Management , Patch Management Dell Has Patched Driver Issue Found by SentinelOne Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • May 5, 2021 Dell’s headquarters in Round Rock, Texas (Photo: Jjpwiki via Wikipedia/CC) Dell has patched five flaws in a vulnerable firmware update driver that has shipped in millions of laptops,…
Robot learns to brush hair and other tech news
LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Plans for a rotating plank floor for Rome’s Colosseum were unveiled A Dutch couple begins living in the country’s first 3D-printed house A hair brushing robot is developed by MIT’s CSAIL – the aim is expand the skills of personal…
Exim Bugs Put Millions of Mail Servers at Risk of Being Hacked (Fixes Available)
Softpedia News / Security 5. May 2021 Multiple critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Exim email server software by the Qualys Research Team. Some of these flaws can be chained together to achieve full remote unauthenticated code execution and root privileges. Exim is a widely used mail transfer agent (MTA) that even comes pre-installed…
DDoS attack knocks Belgian government websites offline
The attack overwhelmed the systems of a Belgian ISP, leading to widespread service outages and disruptions Many government websites and services in Belgium were knocked offline on Tuesday after Belnet, the internet service provider (ISP) for the country’s public sector, was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. According to Belnet, the attack started…
Attack Taking Big Bite Out of Revenue
Breach Notification , Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime SEC Filing Predicts $10 Million to $15 Million Impact Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • May 5, 2021 SmileDirectClub, which sells teeth-straightening appliances, expects that a recent cyberattack, which disrupted the manufacturing of its products, will take a $10 million…