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Remember: Windows 7 is End-Of-Extended-Support in January 2020
We are still seeing a lot of Windows 7 installations around in Dar – and although with only a cursory glance ‘2020’ might feel like its 2 years away from ‘2018’ it’s actually only 16 months away. Windows 7 is already End-of-Life by Microsoft, and when “End of Extended Support” comes that means no more… Read More: Remember: Windows 7 is End-Of-Extended-Support in January 2020 »
Like backdoors? Love Cisco!
At least 5 backdoors found in Cisco software in last 5 months. Are you still feeling secure? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-removes-undocumented-root-password-from-bandwidth-monitoring-software/
Patterns Are Good!
A lot of people ask us about hacking – and mostly we just smile and walk away – but if you’re really interested in finding out how things work, and getting into the real nuts-and-bolts of computers, then we have a nice Youtube channel for you. Start with this clip – it’s a good intro… Read More: Patterns Are Good! »
When will phishers learn that their written English needs to improve?
‘Very high level of confidence’ Kaspersky software responsible for NSA leaks
According to this story from Yahoo Finance, there is a high level of confidence that Kaspersky software was used to leak information from the NSA. If you deal with sensitive information, you may wish to think twice about using Kaspersky. Quoted in the article : “I think there’s a very high level of confidence that… Read More: ‘Very high level of confidence’ Kaspersky software responsible for NSA… »
MacOS High Sierra’s App Store System Preferences Can Be Unlocked With Any Password
Initially reported in this bug report here, it seems that Apple have embarrassed themselves again with yet another flaw in the High Sierra OS update. Macrumours has more to say in this article here.
Excellent and Accessible Write-Up on Spectre & Meltdown Vulnerabilities
https://ds9a.nl/articles/posts/spectre-meltdown/
Intel CPU Vulnerability
You can find a nice write-up on the Intel CPU vulnerability here. “Testing also showed that an attack running on one virtual machine was able to access the physical memory of the host machine, and through that, gain read-access to the memory of a different virtual machine on the same host.” It seems that mitigation… Read More: Intel CPU Vulnerability »
The Shape Of Things To Come?
We found this nice article on APNIC that gives a slightly-but-not-too-technical rundown on how things have started to change in the common internet protocols, hopefully for the better… https://blog.apnic.net/2017/12/12/internet-protocols-changing/