A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. This first article makes a really good point of pointing out how ludicrous the apathy to tighten exposed service is. The cloud providers have done a lot to make it obvious vulnerable services are exposed, but no, people still can’t or ignore such advice. Is it lack of capability? Ignorance? Cost cutting? Maybe all of them. Feeling despaired? It’s getting there…
And I’m not in the least surprised about this next article. Like above, anything exposed to any LAN or Internet needs locking down and vigilance. Someone. somewhere out there will want to get in…
Talking of getting in, looks like with these flaws, just a passing wave is up for grabs:
Warning, this next article is not nice. However it does expose some of the weaknesses (???) of bio-metrics:
