Estonia is a progressive country when it comes to the use of technology. It is an early adopter of innovative technology to make their population digital citizens. As with anything new there are challenges to overcome and for Estonia there is one...
It has been another busy GITEX technology week in Dubai. The myriads of security products were dominated by Machine Learning and Deep Learning in particular. Of course inetelligence corrolation was also noticeable, some better than others.
A popular software developed by a subsidiary of Avast were infiltrated. An unknown entity maliciously hid malware in the form of backdoor in Piriform CCleaner, a widely used cleaning utility. Piriform was acquired by Avast back in July 2017. This is...
The Wikipage of Equifax Inc. states. “Equifax is a consumer credit reporting agency. Equifax collects and aggregates information on over 800 million individual consumers and more than 88 million businesses worldwide”. Unfortunately...
Driving back home, I asked myself, where will ransomware attacks takes us next? I then read this article on Ars Technica. It is chilling but not far fetched to imagine a whole national grid being taken hostage. In the security community we...
Another go for encrypted file sharing. This time it is from Mozilla better known for Firefox, the open source browser. The service named Send thought not perfect allows you to share files 'safely'. In the word of Mozilla blog post "your stuff does...
This is a good piece on process hollowing and atom bombing. If you ignore the marketing part of course.
A massive attack is underway. This has started in the Ukrain but is spreading to the rest of the world fast. Yes it is about ransomware. It is different than perhaps the one you know. Petya is the name of this ransomware and it is also leveraging...
Punycode as described in rfc 3492 “is a simple and efficient transfer encoding syntax designed for use with Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). It uniquely and reversibly transforms a Unicode string into an ASCII string...
The UK Parliament has suffered what it is said to be a cyber attack. The MP are not able to access their parliamentary email account remotely although this could be due as part of the measure to limit the attack. “The Houses of Parliament have...
