Posted by Grégory Lamothe
Subject: Operation of a malicious feature of SSLManagement detailed version can be found at the end of this document. 1 Risk Denial of service remotely. 2 Systems Affected All implementations of SSL / TLS are potentially vulnerable. 3 Summary The CERTA seen a renewed interest in the malicious ...
Posted by Grégory Lamothe
Table 1: Document managementReference CERTA-2013-ALE-005Title vulnerability in the Linux kernelDate of first version May 14, 2013Date of the latest version -Source (s) Security Patch the kernel of April 13, 2013Room (s) attached (s) No Management detailed version can be found at the end of this doc...
Posted by Geoffrey Nicoletti
Imagine nation state agencies secretly rushing to have the capability of---not wrecking the Internet--but being the master of it. What would be a greater threat to the Internet? DoS? digital/physical attack? Destruction of power grid elements? No. None of these. And if the NSA intercepted Chinese pl...
Posted by Don Eijndhoven
If you don't live in the Netherlands or don't happen to have a Dutch bank account, you can certainly be forgiven for not having caught wind of the major banking woes that have been plaguing the Dutch. For weeks now, massive DDoS attacks (linked article in Dutch) have brought low the online...
Posted by Paul C Dwyer
Convincing the board of directors that cyber threats are real is often a daunting task. More importantly conveying the importance and legal exposure that organisations may face is a huge challenge. Directors needs to clearly understand the risks, their obligations and of course an action plan. &nbs...
Posted by Paul C Dwyer
April has started off with more disturbing new of cyber bullying related suicides around the globe. We see “facilitators” of this lining their pockets with lucrative advertising contracts from household brands. What do I mean? Well if we take “ask.fm” as an example, ...
Posted by Don Eijndhoven
Early in February of 2013, many news outlets came out with articles about the US Government having a 'secret legal review' on the use of its cyber-arsenal. This legal review concluded that the US government could launch a cyber attack against a threatening nat...
Posted by Paul C Dwyer
There has been a call from Principals of second levels schools for social networks to set up dedicated cyber bullying support lines. Frustrated by recent high profile cases of “delays in response”, they claim social networks such as facebook have a greater role to play in prote...
Posted by Paul C Dwyer
We have been getting quite a few questions on a related topic of "Cyber Predators". One of the terms we use to describe predators that prey on children online is “Cyber Scum”. By using the Internet your children are at risk from cyber scum. The nature of the Internet means that trust an...