Archive for October, 2020

October 29th, 2020

Spying and tech products

Looks like the NSA is not coming clean on what they are doing for “back doors” in tech. Not good if they are putting them in, we all become at risk because eventually the secret gets out and the “back door” is used against us.
Read the Reuters story https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-congress-insight-idUSKBN27D1CS


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October 15th, 2020

Hacked Cameras – Poor security

Lots of risk here, very bad stuff. Please check your WEBCAMS and change the password and update your software/firmware wherever you can. Patch Patch Patch!
Read the article here
https://www.inputmag.com/culture/hackers-leaked-tons-of-webcam-home-security-footage-on-porn-sites


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October 2nd, 2020

Don’t trust the China Stuff or Huawei’s equipment

GCHQ discovered ‘nationally significant’ vulnerability in Huawei equipment
The issue in Huawei’s equipment was initially withheld from the Chinese company and not reported due to security concerns.

https://news.sky.com/story/gchq-discovered-nationally-significant-vulnerability-in-huawei-equipment-12086688


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October 1st, 2020

Github helps out coders and security

Per this nice article at ENGADGET Github will offer scanning of your code to check for security flaws. A nice feature, hopefully more secure code will follow.
https://www.engadget.com/github-code-scanning-security-093531490.html


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