Cybersecurity

This posting is here to collect cyber security news in April 2024. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. You are also free to post related links to comments. →

This posting is here to collect cyber security news in March 2024. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. You are also free to post related links to comments. →

Encrypting your hard drive is good security. If you’re running Windows, the most popular system is BitLocker. But how secure it it? Bitlocker runs silently in the background, decrypting data on demand. In a simplified sense, encryption keys are stored in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Longer description: The data is encrypted using the Full →

This posting is here to collect cyber security news in February 2024. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. You are also free to post related links to comments. →

Here is an overview of Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities that got a lot of publicity in January 2018. Meltdown and Spectre the two original transient execution CPU vulnerabilities. The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were considered “catastrophic” by security analysts. The vulnerabilities are so severe that security researchers initially believed the reports to be false. In →

This posting is here to collect cyber security news in January 2024. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. You are also free to post related links to comments. →

The year 2023 saw heightened cybersecurity activity, with both security professionals and adversaries engaged in a constant cat-and-mouse game. Here are some cybersecurity predictions for 2024 to help security professionals. It is crucial to anticipate the key themes likely to dominate the cybersecurity space in 2024. Cybersecurity is an ever-evolving process that can never be →

Almost all modern versions of bluetooth are hackable via BLUFFS attacks. CVE-2023-24023 Detail https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24023 Bluetooth BR/EDR devices with Secure Simple Pairing and Secure Connections pairing in Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2 through 5.4 allow certain man-in-the-middle attacks that force a short key length, and might lead to discovery of the encryption key and live injection, aka →

This posting is here to collect cyber security news in December 2023. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. You are also free to post related links to comments. →

I wrote a technical article on embedded systems and IoT security to Uusiteknologia.fi magazine: Designing modern electronics+ information security With the latest smart electronics and embedded microprocessors, devices connected to the network can be implemented even better, but even better care must be taken of their data security and protections. This Designing modern electronics article →