Ordnance Survey hacked, exposing 1,000 employees’ data
Article by Robert Scammell – Verdict A hacker stole the personal data of 1,000 employees of the Ordnance Survey, the government-owned mapping agency for Britain, Verdict can reveal. The agency, which produces digital and paper maps for businesses and consumers, confirmed the breach to Verdict but was unable to go into detail about the type of personal details that […]
February 2020
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Time for a fresh look at the Microsoft security stack?
A decade ago, in fact 3 years ago, the words “Microsoft” and “Security” were rarely used in proximity to each other unless accompanied by swearing, hand gestures and a kind of grim hopelessness. Along with everyone else outside of Redmond, I held the view, and carried the supporting mental scars, that Windows was a huge […]
CISCO DISCOVERY PROTOCOL VULNERABILITIES
Priority: High Executive Summary: Armis (an IoT security company) discovered and disclosed five Cisco zero-day vulnerabilities which have been named (as a collective) ‘CDPwn’. They were discovered in the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) [1-6] and consist of four remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities and a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. These vulnerabilities impact a large […]