Today you can learn about 3 types of two-factor authentication (2FA).
The Polish Press Agency (PAP) reports a cyber attack on the Polish rail network in the north-west of the country in Szczecin. A BBC article reports: “Hackers broke into railway frequencies to disrupt traffic in the north-west of the country overnight, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported on Saturday.The signals were interspersed with recording of…
😬 MITRE CVE list might go offline today! This would be catastrophic for global vulnerability management. What I’ve described as a scenario theoretically possible in How Trump 2.0 could affect the IT industry in Europe might become reality more quickly than I’ve thought and not on the NIST-NVD level, but on the MITRE level including…
Despite the Easter holidays, a lot of incredible work was done over the weekend by many researchers analysing the details of the xz-utils backdoor. Some examples are: As the situation unfolds, it is becoming clear that this was not just one of the most sophisticated technical (perhaps the most sophisticated) attempts to introduce a backdoor…
Since February 2022, cybersecurity threats to railways in the European Union have changed fundamentally: nation-state actors are no longer a theoretical possibility, but a dangerous reality. Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, warns Prague 💡 We therefore need to increase the resilience of the railway system against attacks by very capable attackers with access…
The newly discovered xz-utils backdoor, which was published yesterday (NVD – CVE-2024-3094 (nist.gov)) also affects one of the Linux distributions most used by penetration testers: Kali Linux. ❗Make sure, that you are updating your Kali installations as fast as possible, especially when you updated them before in the time frame between 26.03.2024 and 29.03.2024. 💡For…
The advances in text-to-video models are staggering. With several elections coming up this year and next, it gives a glimpse of the implications for media and social media and how easy it could be to produce very real looking fake news to influence political discussions.