Welcome to another edition of a Paul's Security Weekly Vault episode! This episode was previously recorded on April 5, 2012 and features an interview with none other than Dan Geer. Unfortunately there is no video for this episode, but the content is still relevant today. Dan Geer is a renowned cybersecurity expert and visionary. With a wealth of kn...
Threat actors were able to completely exploit 43% of compromised mobile devices in 2022, which is a 187% increase from 2021, as 80% of phishing sites were found to be targeted at mobile or both mobile and desktop platforms.
Paddy Harrington joins us from Forrester research to discuss his findings in this year's state of IoT security report. Computers have been shoved into anything and everything, both in the home and in the workplace. Paddy will share some interesting insights from the report, and we'll discuss why some of the results seem to conflict.
In a tight economy, security budgets have been under scrutiny. Vendor consolidation strategies are real, but what are the pros and cons of this strategy? Shawn Surber from Tanium joins us to discuss how vendor consolidation is playing out and what to look for. It's not just an expense exercise, it's also a strategic alignment exercise. This segment...
BleepingComputer reports that internet-facing Linux and Internet of Things devices have been targeted by brute-force attacks involving the distribution of a trojanized OpenSSH package to facilitate compromise and SSH credential exfiltration.
Schneider Electric's ION and PowerLogic power meters are being affected by a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-46680, which could be leveraged to obtain credential access and facilitate configuration setting and firmware modifications, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Poorly secured Linux SSH servers have been subjected to brute-force attacks by an unknown threat actor deploying the Tsunami and ShellBot distributed denial-of-service bots, as well as privilege escalation tools, log cleaners, and an XMRig coin miner, reports BleepingComputer.
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