Security – TECH RUNDOWN

What Symantec research into Buckeye using Shadow Brokers Leaked tools before they where leaked actually means

Symantec posted an article on May 6th under the title (Buckeye: Espionage Outfit Used Equation Group Tools Prior to Shadow Brokers Leak) that was taken out of context in most news publications including the New York Times.

Capital One asks users to not use a password manager for “security reasons” [Updated]

Password managers are the number one thing people use so that all services have a unique and complex password, but

Windows update suspended after reportedly deleting user files

Microsoft has suspended the October update after users are reporting missing user files after update. We have paused the rollout

Canadian banks Simplii Financial (CIBC) and BMO received messages from hackers saying they have customer data

Both CIBC owned Simplii and BMO are warning that customer accounts may be compromised in a recent breach. Now how

When you put a device online without protection, within minutes it will become a target of attacks as seen by Jake Lahtinen

This is a little bit of a nerdy post for people into cyber security and honeypots, but stick with this

Equifax shares that more was stolen in the data breach

Back in 2017 Equifax had a data breach thanks to a mess-up where a public known venerability was not patched, and

Sophos finds photo apps hiding malware on the Android Play Store

Yesterday Sophos shared that they found 25 photo apps with malware and reported it to Google. The apps have a kind

Malicious apps can get back on the Android Play Store by changing the app name only

A report from security researchers at Symantec have found a large list of malicious apps on the Android Play Store that have

Microsoft Excel ads custom JavaScript support, and it only takes days to be used for mining crypto currency

A recent update Microsoft published to Excel to add custom JavaScript support has gone wrong. As most figured after showing