Right now, the US Justice Department is trying to compel Apple to help them in break into an Apple device to assist in the investigation into the Pensacola terrorist attack. They [the Justice Department] also want Apple to include backdoors in their products moving forward to make it easier for law enforcement and other government […]
Tag: Equation Group
Knowing what you don’t know. Some lessons learned from Equifax and WannaCry.
It seems like we’re seeing report after report in the news about so-called ‘cyber attacks’ in organizations that, it seems, should have known better or done a better job at protecting themselves (and our data). What didn’t they know that led to the attack (and subsequent breach)? What could they have done to have prevented […]
Cisco patches vulnerability from Shadow Brokers breach
According to this article from ThreatPost and this one from The Register, we’re already starting to see the first trickle of patches resulting from the Shadow Brokers. Looking at the information available though, this doesn’t look too bad (so far). Some important things that jumped out to me about the Cisco vulnerability (there’s also a […]
Possible NSA Breach included bypass tools for Cisco, Juniper and Fortinet firewalls
Details are still a bit sketchy but, according to several news outlets, a group calling itself “Shadow Brokers” claims to have breached the Equation Group, a nation-state spying group suspected to be linked to the U.S. National Security Agency and has posted evidence to confirm the breach. They are offering to release all of the […]