• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-30-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Firefox blocks websites with vulnerable encryption keys

To protect users from cryptographic attacks that can compromise secure web connections, the popular Firefox browser will block access to HTTPS servers that use weak Diffie-Hellman keys.Diffie-Hellman is a key exchange protocol that is slowly replacing the widely used RSA […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-30-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Ransomware spreads through weak remote desktop credentials

Stolen or weak remote desktop credentials are routinely used to infect point-of-sale systems with malware, but recently they’ve also become a common distribution method for file-encrypting ransomware.
In March, researchers discovered a ransomware program dubbed Surprise that was being installed through […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-30-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Ransomware spreads through weak remote desktop credentials

Stolen or weak remote desktop credentials are routinely used to infect point-of-sale systems with malware, but recently they’ve also become a common distribution method for file-encrypting ransomware.
In March, researchers discovered a ransomware program dubbed Surprise that was being installed through […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-29-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Bounty for iOS jailbreak exploit jumps to $1.5 million

The value for zero-day exploits targeting Apple’s iOS software is jumping. On Thursday, a company called Zerodium began offering as much as US $1.5 million for them.Zerodium is the same company that offered $1 million last year for an exclusive iOS […]