A Guide To Buying A Dumb TV
2026 may have a lesson for TV manufacturers, if consumers are willing to make the choice to ensure their next TV is a dumb TV. The proliferation of advertisements being shown in…
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Tag: Security
One Time Passwords Over SMS On The Way Out, But Classic Passwords Still Remain
MFA is a nice addition to security. It adds another layer on top of the username and password combo which has become the standard for logins, and makes it more difficult for…
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Joy, React2Shell Is a 10/10 RCE Vulnerability Found On Over A Third Of Cloud Environments
React2Shell is a new vulnerability which has just been spotted and around 40% of all Cloud environments and 6% of websites are vulnerable to it. It leverages a flaw in React Server…
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ShadyPanda Malware Patiently Spread Across Edge And Chrome Web Store For Years Before Activating
ShadyPanda is a nasty project that has been running invisibly for years only to attempt to unleash devastation this year. The group behind it has been publishing useful apps to both the…
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Visit This Free Online Page From GreyNoise To See If Your IP Is Part Of A Botnet
GreyNoise has provided us all something to be thankful for, a quick and easy way to check if your IP address is propagating botnet traffic. It won't tell you which...
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WhatsApp Skipped A Very Basic Security Step
WhatsApp has a feature which allows you to find other users via the phone number you have associated with your account. This is handy when making a new connection and only confirms…
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Ye Olde ASUS WRT Router Dost Be A Security Risk
Operation WrtHug is the name given to a current campaign that has infected a large number of older ASUS WRT routers and is looking for more to take over. The campaign leverages…
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Forgot Your Gmail Password? Time To Phone A Friend!
The proliferation of passkeys and authentication apps for 2FA presents somewhat of a problem if you lose the device you use to authenticate. It can even make upgrading your phone rather frustrating…
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Stop Hard Coding Certs, Tokens And Other Authorization In Your VS Code Extensions!
It may be convenient, but if you are designing custom VS Code extensions do not code in anything you don't want people to get access to! There are currently over 500 VS…
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Communications Satellites Discover SIP Encryption For The First Time
You might assume that the traffic flowing through satellites is encrypted; you would be wrong but it is a reasonable assumption to make. Unfortunately, as we have seen several times,...
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The Mic-E-Mouse Attack Turns Your Gaming Mouse Into An Eavesdropper
It's not just the walls that have ears, that mouse on your desk might be spying on you too! The wonderfully named Mic-E-Mouse attack, conceived of by researchers at UC Irvine, can…
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Somewhere Between A Third To A Half Of All PCs Using Steam Are Still Windows 10
It is likely a bit of an exaggeration to say half of all computers that are used to run Steam games are still on Windows 10, but the count certainly...
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Microsoft Enables Shadow IT By Letting People Sneak Their Personal Copilot Into Work
There has been a new and frustrating challenge for IT teams that just got worse, trying to prevent LLMs from stealing proprietary data. The easy part is setting up a firewalled version…
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Pay Attention To Unidentified Developers, Ignore The 19 Million Downloads Of An Infected App From The Google Play Store
Yesterday we learned of Google's plans to require developers to somehow authenticate themselves with Google so they can be identified, or else their Android apps will be blocked from installation...
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Dastardly Docker Desktop Defect Detected
If you use Docker Desktop, on either Windows or Mac, you are at risk unless you drop everything and update to version 4.44.3. The exploit, a mere 9.3, can evade Docker's Enhanced…
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Should We Call Satellite Hackers Space Invaders?
Today The Register published a reminder of just how vulnerable the roughly 12,000 satellites orbiting the Earth are to hacking attempts. Yamcs is an open source application used by NASA...
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NVIDIA Says No To Backdoors In Their Hardware
NVIDIA has been in the news a lot lately, to the point even the non-technically inclined know the name well, if not the product names. One reason they've been in the news…
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There Is Now A Free Ransomware Decryptor For Victims of Phobos and 8base
The Japanese police have made a ransomware decryptor available, for free, that will allow victims of Phobos and 8-Base to recover any files encrypted by those ransomware attacks. It may also work…
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