Security Incompetence
Microsoft Office Macro Policy Reversal: A Legacy Of Incompetent Security Management
Over the weekend, Ars Technica's Dan Goodin reported on the reversal of the current Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) Office untrusted macro run policy. Apparently, the company will no longer block untrusted macro ...
Robert M. Lee’s & Jeff Haas’ Little Bobby Comics – ‘WEEK 326’
via the respected information security capabilities of Robert M. Lee & the superlative illustration talents of Jeff Haas at Little Bobby Comics Permalink ...
Oops! Oracle Corporation’s BlueKai Exposes Billions Of Records On Interwebs
via Zack Whittaker, writing at TechCrunch (and, via an appreciated H/T), comes a report of the most egregiously enormous data leak this year: This time, it's Oracle Corporations' (NYSE: ORCL) BlueKai's (BlueKai's ...
The Continuing ZOOM Security Fails: A Litany Of Security Incompetence
via Wang Wei, writing at The Hacker News, comes the latest reports of blatant anti-customer security outragse perpetrated by Zoom. Read it and Weep... But, after you wipe away the tears, remember ...
The ~100,000…
via Dan Goodin writing at Ars Technica comes the sorry tale of the hundred thousand. Yes, approximatley 100,000 (give or take a couple thousand possible targets...) WordPress sites have succumbed to a ...
Proof The End Is Near: Critical Crypto Vulnerability In Microsoft Products…
So, what else is new? Isn't it time to move on to non-Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT) Operating Systems that well may be light-years ahead of the Redmond, WA software leviathan deeply flawed ...
IPVM Reports: Wyze CEO Blames Employee For Data Loss, Not Company’s Security Posture…
John Honovich - writing at IPVM, categorically exclaims "Stop Blaming Your Employee, Wyze'. Thus rounds out what we like to call the Year of the Data Exfil, and todays' must read on ...
Ring, Casted and Nulled
Flawed security provisioning coupled with incompetent security management leads to Amazon’s Ring camera hacks, and the subsequent fear and loathing represented by those intrusions. Or, an Invasion of Privacy, by any other ...
US DOE OIG Report: Thousands of Severe Security Flaws Discovered
via the DOE's Office of Inspector General, comes critically important news in a highly troubling US DOE OIG Report, for the Department, energy consumers in the United States and interconnected energy firms ...
Kakistocracy* Via Phone And Twitter
via Sean Gallagher, writing at Ars Technica, comes superlative reporting of telephone communications security failures in the 'highest-office-in-the-land, this time at a restaurant in Kyiv, Ukraine in conversation with the highest-office-holder-in-the-land and ...
