This posting is here to collect cyber security news in January 2019. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. If you are interested in cyber security trends, read my Cyber security trends 2019 posting. You are also free to post related links. →
What are the top cyber trends to watch out for in 2019? Here’s what I have been hearing and reading: First I present a new information security term: Virtual Security = Manufacturers claim that their products are secure. but in reality they are not. New APT groups, and more regulations around data privacy, 2019 is →
https://www.htbridge.com/blog/top-10-malware-incidents-and-campaigns-of-2018.html →
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/apps-selling-location,news-28798.html Back in October, Tom’s Guide reportedthat it’s possible for cheap mobile advertisements to spy on you through your phone. Sales of location-targeted advertising reached an estimated $21 billion this year. This morning, a report from the New York Times warns that smartphone apps do that also for profit: More than 1,000 popular apps contain →
This posting is here to collect security alert news in September 2018. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. You are also free to post related links. →
https://www.theonion.com/china-unable-to-recruit-hackers-fast-enough-to-keep-up-1819578374 This is a parody article but it seems that it might not very far from reality in many details… →
Hacker and security researcher Samy Kamkar takes a look at a variety of hacking scenes from popular media and examines their authenticity. →
https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4437117/The-computer-virus-is-born–November-10–1983 On this day in technology history, a graduate student’s self-replicating code that could gain control of a system inspired the term “computer virus”. In his 1983 paper “Computer Viruses – Theory and Experiments,” Cohen defined a computer virus as “a program that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved →
This posting is here to collect security alert news in September 2018. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. You are also free to post related links. →
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/06/microsoft-suspends-windows-10-update-citing-data-loss-reports/ A few day after making the latest version of Windows 10 available to users, Microsoft has suspended the update: “We have paused the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) for all users as we investigate isolated reports of users missing some files after updating,” the company writes on its support →