A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. Extortion methods have been pretty consistent the past couple of years, but a new one popped up this week which seems to be focused on the online small business owner. I wonder how this one will pan out:

If you are going to have an important portal to your infrastructure accessible you would want it to be secure and only on your network right? And have password you can change? Oh. Got some bad news for you then…

I’ve long known that DNS root control would be a pretty big thing, but like everyone else just taken it for granted that someone does something, sometime.  That blissful ignorance was up until a recent ‘security’ issue occurred and made enough news to bring to light what actually goes on. Do take a look at it is fascinating:

 

In other news…

 

Weekly Cyber Security News 21/02/2020
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