Month: May 2019
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Security – Hell in a handbasket
The last 2 weeks have really been a bad time for security news and one has to hope things will change for the better; if not, the headline says it all! BlueKeep Microsoft released a security patch 2 weeks ago related to Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) which is used to remote access Windows systems.…
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Symantec’s negative day defense
For when zero-day protection is not enough – Symantec are now prescient! WTF does "negative day defense" even mean?! pic.twitter.com/r1Q2L7GbOg — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) May 28, 2019
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Vuln mitigation and INtel MDS – the spectre looms
Spectre and Meltdown a have been with us for just over a year now and even with all the predictions of dire consequences, we have yet to see any in-the-wild code snippets or attacks beyond theoretical POCs. So the question to ask is whether we should be losing a lot of hardware performance (most of…