The Senate Commerce Committee approved last week what could prove to be an essential piece of legislation for cybersecurity researchers: The Cybersecurity Competitions to Yield Better Efforts to Research the Latest Exceptionally Advanced Problems, or Cyber LEAP Act of 2020. Sponsored by Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Jacky…
If you’re still trying to remember all of your passwords and then type ’em into sites by hand, let me tell you: You’re doing it wrong. With all the credentials we have to keep track of these days, there’s just no way the human brain can handle the task of storing the specifics — at…
If you’re still trying to remember all of your passwords and then type ’em into sites by hand, let me tell you: You’re doing it wrong. With all the credentials we have to keep track of these days, there’s just no way the human brain can handle the task of storing the specifics — at…
The Business Division of UK ISP TalkTalk has today announced a reshuffle of its senior Director-level leadership team, which aims to help the internet provider “focus on a full fibre future” and boost growth in their other broadband, fibre and Ethernet data services. In short, Ruth Kennedy, currently Director for Carrier and SI’s, will move…
The City of London Police (Action Fraud Squad) and UK Trading Standards are to target sales of the bizarre £300 5GBioShield, which was recommended by a member of Glastonbury Town Council’s much criticised 5G Advisory Committee and falsely promised to create a shield against 5G mobile radiation. Except it’s just a USB stick. The situation…
Urban UK fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has announced that they’ve started construction on their £14m project to build a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network in the sea side Suffolk town of Lowestoft, which will be supplied by ISP partners Vodafone (and eventually TalkTalk). At present the operator is already involved in a…
For the first time, Twitter has hidden a tweet on the president’s profile behind a warning. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Attackers looking to steal employee credentials from organizations tied to the industrial sector deployed highly-targeted operations that delivered malicious PowerShell scripts in images. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
Rural fibre optic UK ISP Gigaclear has confirmed that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in West Berkshire – built with support from public investment via the Superfast Berkshire project – is now nearly complete following massive delays. Some 14,000 local premises can already access the service. Back in 2018 the Superfast Berkshire project revealed…
BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the best of the week’s technology news stories. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in preview in eight additional AWS regions: US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London). Refer RDS Proxy pricing page for a complete list of regions where RDS Proxy is available. Source:: Amazon AWS
LEDs already light our houses but developments are making them even more powerful. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Microsoft officially started rolling out Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows 10 May 2020 Update yesterday, but for many people, it is not being offered when they check via Windows Update. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
In just two-and-a-half years, police in England and Wales recorded 10,119 online grooming offences. Source:: BBC News – Technology
You can now use the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Data API and Amazon RDS Query editor in additional AWS Regions. Source:: Amazon AWS
Isabella Ong, 24, cannot visit her grandfather’s grave because of coronavirus, so she found another way to honour him. Source:: BBC News – Technology
The NCSC’s weekly threat report is drawn from recent open source reporting. Source:: NCSC Guidance
On April 29, 2020, the Salt Open Core team notified their community regarding the following two CVE-IDs: CVE-2020-11651: Authentication Bypass Vulnerability CVE-2020-11652: Directory Traversal Vulnerability Cisco Modeling Labs Corporate Edition (CML) and Cisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab Personal Edition (VIRL-PE) incorporate a version of SaltStack that is running the salt-master service that is affected by…
Every week brings more security news and this week is about an interesting piece of Javascript that can run in your browser if you happen to use eBay under a particular set of circumstances. The code can scan your computer and send information back to a security vendor, which could be used to track your…
Cisco is embracing the secure-access service edge (SASE) architecture put forth by Gartner with plans to upgrade some of its existing products to reach the goal of delivering access control, security and networking to cloud services. The enterprise shift to SASE will be gradual as they figure out the best way to connect their increasingly…