Perfectl Malware Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware: The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua Security said. It can also exploit CVE-2023-33246, a vulnerability with … Read more
The growing connectivity of automotive systems exposes connected vehicles to cybersecurity risks that must be mitigated to ensure the development of safe and secure vehicles. One component of effective, comprehensive security testing is fuzzing, a test automation method that injects invalid, malformed, or unexpected inputs into a device to reveal defects and vulnerabilities. Keysight Technologies … Read more
Transport for London (TfL) suffers a cybersecurity incident and tells its 30,000 staff they will all have to their identities verified… in-person. Who might have been behind the attack and why? Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s curious relationship with cryptocurrency is explored. All this and Demi Moore is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” … Read more
IronNet Has Shut Down After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet. At the time, he claimed that it was based on IP he developed on his own time while still in the military. That always troubled me. Whatever ideas … Read more
Singaporean organisations are ramping up their spending in cybersecurity according to new research from KnowBe4 reporting investment in cyber security measures is rising, with 87% of respondents expressing their intention to invest in or allocate funds toward cybersecurity in 2024. This marks a significant uptick from 72% reported the previous year in 2022. Despite the … Read more
