The war between Ukraine and Russia worries everyone, including me. In my opinion, it only just started and I think that this might turn into a long-running conflict. This is the first time that Cyber Warfare plays an important part in a full-scale war and the use of “Wipers” is one of the most powerful tools.
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In the world of malware, there are two common types of spreading malware: with a computer virus and with a computer worm. A computer virus is more or less “controllable” by its creator which means it can be sent to specific targets by, for instance, spear phishing. A worm however is completely out of control once it is set loose infecting random targets who happen to be vulnerable. In other words: lots of collateral damage.
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In this post, I want to provide more insight into SSL/TLS. Talking about “SSL” can be very confusing and sometimes one person is talking about a protocol while the other is talking about a certificate.
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Ransomware attacks are currently a very popular method to extort money from companies. After a successful ransomware attack, one or more systems are encrypted. Victims are prevented from accessing their data until they “pay up”.
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Nowadays, you can read about DDoS attacks on organizations in the news quite often. Until now I did not exactly know how DDoS attacks work in detail.
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Log4j is not a codename for a super virus. Log4j is simply the name of a piece of open-source code, written in the Java library coding language. By some, the Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) has been characterized as “the single biggest, most critical vulnerability of the last decade”.
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Because of the many cyberattacks at the moment and the buzz around big tech companies that gather a lot of data, both in business and on an individual scale, I would like to take a deep dive into HTML/Web Tracking.
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