Cybersecurity Lingo: What is a "zero day" ? A zero day is the worst kind of security bug: a hole that is already in use by attackers or was published before a software vendor could fix it. The vendor has ...
Cybersecurity Lingo: What is a "CVE"? It is a unique ID for a specific security bug. This ID is unique to every bug ever found, no matter what piece of software it is. For example, the log4j bug that showed ...
Cybersecurity Lingo: What is a "malicious actor" or a "bad actor"? The rest of the world calls these people hackers. It's pretty simple. Inside computer culture "hacker" can have different connotations, so we came up with more confusing language 😆 ...
Cybersecurity Lingo: What is an "Attack vector" ? This is *how* a malicious actor enters your system. For instance, they may buy passwords on the dark web and login to your email that way. Or if they successfully phish an ...
Cybersecurity Lingo: What is an "attack surface"? Simply: it is anywhere an attacker can get into your systems if proper security is not applied. This includes your servers, your websites, your email, your software (even your close software). To INCREASE ...
I know I know, you hear it all the time, BUT UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE. Today's bugs all come from Chrome, where we have MULTIPLE security vulnerabilities that all rank as HIGH -- according to Google. What do they do? Google ...
A recent WordPress vulnerability allows hackers to basically download* the entire site. Here's why that matters to you: Your small business website probably runs on WordPress. Your website has contact forms, phone numbers listed, etc. Maybe a blog like ours. ...
Amazon "smart speakers" can now hack *themselves*. 🤦 Academic researchers have devised a new working exploit that commandeers Amazon Echo smart speakers and forces them to unlock doors, make phone calls and unauthorized purchases, and control furnaces, microwave ovens, and ...
A couple of weeks ago one of the most significant bugs ever found in Linux was announced, here is why that matters to you: 1. If you run an Android you are almost surely vulnerable.* 2. I guarantee that you ...
A "shadowy hacker group" has been targeting people... "for at least a decade," reports Gizmodo, "sometimes using its digital powers to plant fabricated evidence of criminal activity on their devices. That phony evidence has, in turn, often provided a pretext ...
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