Microsoft breaks network connectivity for many Windows 8 and 10 users just in time for Christmas – what a lovely gift. It’s related to the network stack (obviously) but seems to be specific to DHCP, so if you statically assign your LAN addresses (like most of us probably do) then you’ll be alright. And if […]
Tags: dhcp, dhcp problem, microsoft, microsoft updates broken, microsoft windows, windows 10, windows 10 dhcp, windows 8, windows updates
Posted in: General News | Add a CommentThe big news today is an acquisition, “Trustwave bought by Singtel” is rocking all the headlines. The fairly well known security vendor Trustwave has been bought for a rather large amount (almost $1 Billion – but not quite). We have mentioned Trustwave before, and not in a good light – they were sued as the […]
Tags: infosec services, managed security services, MSS, singtel, singtel cyber security, singtel ict, trustwave, trustwave takeover
Posted in: General News | Add a CommentSo an interested piece of news I spotted today is about Jose Bautista, an 18 year old from Miami-Data, USA who was arrested and charged with hacking school to change grades. It seems he’s being dealt with fairly harshly, which is a trend with ‘hacking’ related crimes nowadays. We did have a story similar to […]
So there’s been a bit of debate lately about Google’s Chrome apps after the launch, most of you have probably heard of Chrome OS a while back with a few Chromebooks popping up here and there. Chrome Apps are the next generation of browser apps that can be run offline and eventually will be cross […]
The big news for the past few days was a rather sizable Twitter hack, although it’s only a small percentage of the 140 million strong Twitter user-base – 250,000 is still a large number. If you were affected you will have received a password reset e-mail and will be prompted to change your password if […]
Well there hasn’t been a whole lot of news the last couple of days apart from the London riots – which don’t have much of a technical spin. The only technical part is that the looters/rioters etc seem to be organizing themselves using BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) and Twitter. The former being rather smart as it’s […]
Tags: china, chinese government hackers, chinese-hackers, cyber attacks, cyber-terrorism, cyberterrorism, tawain
Posted in: General News | Add a CommentWe’ve reported a few times on the Anonymous collective, with the most recent being the rumoured attacks by Anonymous against the Malaysian Government. The latest story is following Google+ banning numerous Anonymous members, they have spawned their own social network called Anon+/Anonplus. As is normal with these things, it’d hard to say if it really […]
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Posted in: General News | Add a CommentThere’s been a few big stories in the past few days, one is of course the whole iPhone geo-location data tracking thing – but everyone was too busy checking into Foursquare to complain about that. The other is that the Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) basically got hacked, owned and raped. It’s still currently down and […]
Tags: playstation network, playstation network hack, ps3, ps3 security, psn, psn hack, qriocity, Security, sony, sony hack, sony hacked, sony playstation network, sony psn, sony security
Posted in: General News | Add a CommentIt seems like the formidable Anonymous army has managed to change the weighting of stats collected by the Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) with it’s vast array of DDoS attacks. We’ve reported on a couple of them like back in December when the WikiLeaks Attacks Caused Rival DDoS Retaliation. There have been a whole lot […]
With all the new vulnerabilities with working exploits pouring out of Pwn2Own, I can’t say I expected to see another 0-day in Adobe Flash outside of the contest. It wasn’t that long ago (back in October 2010) when there was another Critical 0-day Vulnerability In Adobe Flash Player, Reader & Acrobat and Adobe were scrambling […]
