Optrics Insider – Dell Vulnerability, CVS Health Leak, WD MyBook Remote Factory Reset & Zero Trust
Join Scott Young and Shaun Sturby from Optrics Engineering as discuss the Dell Bios Connect vulnerability, the 1 billion records that were leaked from CVS Health, Western Digital’s MyBook remote factory reset issue and the Zero Trust cybersecurity framework. Timecodes: 0:00 – Intro 0:19 – Today’s 4 topics 0:42 – Topic 1: Dell Bios […]
Optrics Insider – Which is Bigger 26M or 8.4B? Open Redirects, Akamai Outage & PoE Powered Spam
Join Scott Young and Shaun Sturby from Optrics Engineering as they discuss what is bigger – 26 million or 8.4 billion, open redirect, the recent Akamai CDN outage and PoE powered can of spam to stop spam.. Timecodes: 0:00 – Intro 0:21 – Today’s 4 topics 0:55 – Topic 1: Which is Bigger 26 Million […]
Optrics Insider – Why JBS Paid $11M in Ransom, Impact of the Fastly Outage & the Zoll Vulnerability
Join Scott Young and Shaun Sturby from Optrics Engineering as they discuss why JBS paid $11 million in ransom (and it wasn’t to get their data back), how the Fastly outage knocked the Internet offline and Zoll’s defibrillator dashboard vulnerability advisory. Timecodes: 0:00 – Intro 0:20 – Today’s 3 topics 0:57 – Topic 1: JBS […]
Optrics Insider – Amazon Launches Sidewalk Wireless Mesh Service & You’ve Been Automatically Opted-In
Do you use Amazon Ring door bells or Echo Alexa devices? Amazon launched their Sidewalk wireless mesh service for their Internet connected devices last week and if you own one or more of these devices you’ve automatically been opted in. Should you be concerned? Is this a good thing? Shaun Sturby and I discuss Amazon’s […]
Optrics Insider – Ransomware Headlines, White House Ransomware Memo & Amazon Launches Sidewalk
Join Scott Young and Shaun Sturby from Optrics Engineering as they discuss the large number of organizations in the headlines who have been hit by ransomware, the White Houses recent memo to private organizations on what they can do to prevent being a victim of a ransomware attack as well as today’s launch of […]
Optrics Insider – HaveIBeenPwned Announcement, VMWare Vulnerability & Colonial Pipeline Update
Join Scott Young and Shaun Sturby from Optrics Engineering as they discuss Troy Hunt’s recent announcement about his HaveIBeenPwned service, a VMWare patch you need to apply immediately to vCenter Server as well as how the US Department of Homeland Security has responded to the Colonial Pipeline hacked. Timecodes: 0:00 – Intro 0:19 – Today’s […]
Five worthy reads: Distributed cloud is the future of cloud computing
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. Distributed cloud allows organizations to bring cloud computing closer to their location. This week we look at why it’s the future of cloud computing. By David Simon Distributed cloud computing enables organizations to distribute cloud services […]
A Popular Fraud Combo is Back: Elon Musk and Bitcoin
Researchers at Bitdefender warn that cybercriminals continue to impersonate Elon Musk in Bitcoin scams. One campaign that started on May 15 involved sending thousands of emails telling users to register for a $5,000 Bitcoin giveaway organized by Tesla. “79.72% of scam emails appear to be sent from IP addresses in Germany, targeting users in Europe […]
Optrics Insider – WiFi FragAttacks & Internet Explorer 11 End-of-Life
Join Scott Young and Shaun Sturby from Optrics Engineering as they discuss the WiFi FragAttacks (fragmentation and aggregation attacks) as well as a reminder that Internet Explorer 11 will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022. Time to start using Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, Brave or any of the […]
New QuickBooks-Themed Phishing Attack Seeks to Infect Victims with Dridex Malware
Quickbooks Phishing AttackPurporting to be invoices and payment reminders, this new campaign targets users of the popular accounting software to install the banking trojan on its victims endpoints. The bad guys have long known that emails involving the concept that the recipient owes money will get a response. They also know if you use a […]