Apple T2 security chip fatally flawed
The Apple T2 security chip is fatally flawed according to a blog from Niels Hoffman at Belgian cybersecurity services company ironPeak Consulting. It basis its analysis of work carried out by...
What’s your supply chain cyber risk?
How many organisations know what their supply chain cyber risk is? Is it the big partners, supplier and customers or the smallest partners, customers or suppliers that you work with? Is...
Kaspersky spots customised UEFI firmware bootkit
Kaspersky says it has spotted a customised firmware bootkit in the wild. The UEFI bootkit is being used as part of an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) espionage campaign. It has named...
Is poor management of APIs a risk to security?
API management is becoming increasingly important for organisations. Companies have used them internally for connecting their own systems. Now they are adapting their existing APIs and building new ones as part...
US Treasury threatens sanctions for Ransomware payments
The US Treasury has warned that ransomware payments to cybercriminals may violate sanctions. It is one of two warnings that the US issued late last week. The second came from the Financial...
Redscan Labs releases Zerologon Detector tool
Redscan Labs has released a Zerologon Detector tool that it claims will detect any evidence that your organisation has been compromised. News of the tools release, and its ability to detect...
GitHub releases code scanning for safer software
Code repository, GitHub, has formally released its code scanning feature. Code scanning looks through a developers code to identify security vulnerabilities. It then alerts the developer to allow them to patch their...
Is your cyber hygiene good enough?
Improving cyber hygiene is a goal that a lot of IT security teams struggle with. The problem is that it is such a broad subject. At one end it is about...
Can a computer program be unintelligible yet still work?
Is it possible to make a computer program unintelligible to anyone trying to disassemble it yet still retain its functionality? It's a key question that has been around for decades. Now,...
Fraud rise driven by shoppers moving online during lockdown
Forter has released its 9th annual Fraud Attack Index. At 46 pages, it paints a damning picture of how fraud prevention solutions are failing as people shift to online shopping. More...