Day: 21 July 2015
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Security issues invade non-traditional areas
We’re mostly used to malicious attacks being associated with computer, servers, mobiles and other IT-related systems. But more and more, computing is being pushed into areas that aren’t traditional for these attacks yet are fast becoming critical areas. InternetOfThings (IoT ) devices and automotive applications are starting to appear on hackers’ radars. Some security researchers…
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Backups and online data
This past weekend has not been a good one for Mweb Business. On Friday, some misconfiguration, glitch or human error caused the loss of many clients’ hosted systems on Mweb’s virtual hosting platform. Clients were greeted with a message stating that their new/clean virtual machines were now up with a new IP address. And no data. That…
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Flash triple threat
The last week has been a very interesting one ( read OMG it’s almost the end of the world ) in the security world. There were new threats from all corners but Adobe Flash stole the show with 3 critical issues in 2 days. All 3 issues could result in remote code execution or DoS attacks.…
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MS Windows critical font vuln
Microsoft release an out-of-order patch yesterday for a critical vulnerability relating to custom fonts resulting in remote execution of code on a machine. More details here: http://gizmodo.com/go-update-windows-right-now-1719187152 Note that because Windows Server 2003 has just gone end-of-life, there is no update for it.
