It’s the age-old tension of security vs. ease of use.
— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 8, 2022
In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we blame lazy customers and lazier product management.
At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/QfIOo9rvK3
Friday 8 July 2022
STUPID Microsoft U-Turn: Unblocks Malicious Macros in Office - Security Boulevard
VBA FAIL 365: Microsoft stunned security professionals by reversing a change that prevents Office from auto-running macros. So don’t expect the malware problem to improve any time soon.
Thursday 7 July 2022
Dev Job Phisher Steals $540M | Patch OpenSSL NOW | Systemd Dev Joins Microsoft - DevOps.com
Be great in act, as you have been in thought:
In this week’s #TheLongView:
— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 7, 2022
1⃣ #SpearPhishing causes $540 million loss,
2⃣ a high severity bug in #OpenSSL might be “worse than Heartbleed,” and
3⃣ Lennart “@pid_eins” Poettering is now working for @Microsoft.
At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/6iY10dZWu2 #DevOps
Devs: Don’t do DIY cryptography — Police CyberAlarm shows why - ReversingLabs
Wake up—don’t snooze: It’s a truism often repeated: Don’t roll your own cryptography! There are countless traps laying in wait for the unwary—so stick to trusted, tested libraries and beware the unknown unknowns.
When it comes to cryptography, we simply don’t know what we don’t know.
— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 7, 2022
In this week’s #SSBlogwatch, Messrs. Dunning and Kruger would like a word.
For @ReversingLabs’ @SecuredSoftware: https://t.co/Ciga0PTSoq
Tuesday 5 July 2022
‘ChinaDan’ Hacks 1 BILLION Police Records from Shanghai: 23TB of PII for Sale - Security Boulevard
CCP LOL—SHGA PII BBQ: “China’s Largest Data Leak” is causing a kerfuffle in Beijing. A hacker calling themself ChinaDan is holding 23 terabytes of personal data for ransom.
Predictably, the #ChineseCommunistParty is censoring news of the leak.
— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 5, 2022
In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we we don’t expect to be read behind The Great Firewall.
At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/hEQB7ISiLr
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