WebEx’s “Magic Pattern” Goes Public
WebEx’s protection fails and leaves a wide open security hole. The popular browser plugin, from Cisco, used for web conferencing has around 20 million users […]
Articles by Chris Harston
Sage 2.0 Ransomware
The ransomware, called “Sage 2.0”, is a variant of the CryLocker ransomware and was found in an email campaign for malspam. According to Brad Duncan’s […]
Are They Listening?
Are your IoT devices listening in on your private conversations? Yes. They are listening, and it seems they are doing much more than that. All […]
Security Under Trump
Nobody truly knows what’s in store for the governments IT Security policies under the new Trump administration. But, everyone agrees that things are going to […]
Gmail Issues
Why it might be a good idea to drop your Gmail account. Google’s Gmail seems to have a serious problem in distinguishing similar emails. In […]
Yahoo Seriously?
Back in the news in less than three months is Yahoo with another security FAIL revelation. Determined to break its old record of 500+ Million […]
Android Sends User Data to China
Of course this week’s big stinker of a story was how some Android devices were sending user data to a server in China. Yeah, certain […]
Google’s Zero Day Windows Disclosure
Yesterday, Google’s threat analysis team released a public disclosure of a flaw in Windows that allows hackers to bypass security sandboxes. While we applaud disclosures, […]
Patchocalypse
As most of you know, last week brought us Microsoft’s Patchocalypse, where we became Microsofts test subjects for their new patching bundle. And this week […]
Yahoo Doubles Down
Yahoo adds to its privacy woes. As if compromising half a Billion user accounts wasn’t enough. Reuters reports that Yahoo had developed a program to scan […]