Senior military official claims “significant” operational impact
Microsoft Fixes New Year’s Day Exchange Server Bug
Issue led to empty inboxes on first day back at work
Defensive Security Podcast Episode 259
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Why this Spanish village celebrates New Year’s Eve in August
The Andalusian village of Bérchules will not be celebrating the end of 2023 at the same time as everyone else, instead they will have their countdown and grape-eating in early August. Here’s the fascinating reason why.
Keeping Up with the Botnets
It?s no secret that the global pandemic increased opportunities for threat actors and cybercriminals to target financial services. Throughout 2020, scammers used the economic tension caused by COVID-19 ? the promise of financial assistance, the stress …
Our Journey to Detect Log4j-Vulnerable Machines
Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) is a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Apache-foundation open-source logging library Log4j. It was published on December 9, 2021, and then all hell broke loose. As Log4j is a common logging library for Java app…
Russian Military Pay Still Lags
Despite Defense Minister Shoygu’s announcement of “higher than planned” pay increases for Russian servicemen in 2022 and 2023, military salaries will still lag woefully behind cumulative consumer inflation amounting to more than 90 percent since 2012. At the December 22 … Continue reading
Albania’s Prime Minister Issues Data Leak Apology
Personal data of hundreds of thousands of Albanian citizens leaked on social media
Russia Fines Google $100m Over “Illegal” Content
Moscow slaps American tech giant with largest ever penalty relating to banned content
NY Makes Falsifying Vaccination Cards a Crime
Falsifying COVID-19 vaccination card data is now a Class D felony in the state of New York