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If you’re using a Western Digital mybook storage device unplug it NOW!
06/26/2021

If you’re using a Western Digital mybook storage device unplug it NOW!

Storage-device maker advises customers to unplug My Book Lives from the Internet ASAP.

You... had backups, yes?
03/21/2021

You... had backups, yes?

"I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail!"—Michael Bolton

If you're a sys admin and you use Let's Encrypt, you may need to be reissuing some certs! They had a bug in their cert ...
03/03/2020

If you're a sys admin and you use Let's Encrypt, you may need to be reissuing some certs! They had a bug in their cert issuing code that requires them to expire a few million certs by Wed, March 4th. Details on the problem and a tool to check your certs can be found here:

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/revoking-certain-certificates-on-march-4/114864

On 2020-02-29 UTC, Let’s Encrypt found a bug in our CAA code. Our CA software, Boulder, checks for CAA records at the same time it validates a subscriber’s control of a domain name. Most subscribers issue a certificate immediately after domain control validation, but we consider a validation goo...

It's not just your computer at risk...
11/05/2019

It's not just your computer at risk...

I’m going to go ahead and pat myself on the back for setting up a Google Alert for the words “Qnap” and “malware.” I use one of the company’s NAS boxes, as do many others, and now I have a chance to inoculate my device against a nasty new strain of malware that’s making the rounds.

If you use Chrome you need to update yesterday. If you don't want to read through the entire article the summary is: T...
11/02/2019

If you use Chrome you need to update yesterday. If you don't want to read through the entire article the summary is: There's a security hole in Chrome and Bad People are using it. Hat Tip to Robert!

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html

Can you please disclose more information about any known exploits? I read this 0 day was actively being exploited in the wild. If I knew more information about the exploit I could build better detection mechanisms for my environment.

All your data are belong to us...
11/01/2019

All your data are belong to us...

Google says the move will bolster Wear OS and bring Google-branded fitness trackers.

Whoa...
08/08/2019

Whoa...

Warshipping: attack a target network by shipping a cellular-enabled wifi cracker to a company's mail-room

This is why you should never reuse passwords between sites. You might be very careful but others may not be.
06/07/2019

This is why you should never reuse passwords between sites. You might be very careful but others may not be.

Business IT giant that services Apple, Cisco, and others, exposed 264GB of info

Never in my wildest dreams/worst nightmares would I guessed this would happen.
05/08/2019

Never in my wildest dreams/worst nightmares would I guessed this would happen.

For developers, developers, developers

I keep beating the drum... backups people, backups! It can happen to anyone.
03/18/2019

I keep beating the drum... backups people, backups! It can happen to anyone.

It’s been a year since the music links on Myspace stopped working; at first the company insisted that they were working on it, but now they’ve admitted that all those files are lost: & #…

"My left shoe won't even reboot." We live in the future everyone!
02/28/2019

"My left shoe won't even reboot." We live in the future everyone!

$350 self-lacing sneakers don't work with Nike's official Android app.

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