Reducing the Attack Surface for End-of-Support Edge Devices

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) are releasing this fact sheet to urge defensive action against malicious cyber activity by nation-state threat actors. Nation-state threat Read More …

Stay Secure: Why Cyber Hygiene Should Be Part of Your Personal Hygiene

When you hear the term “personal hygiene,” chances are you think of basic routines such as staying clean, wearing deodorant and brushing your teeth. In today’s tech-driven world, another aspect of personal hygiene deserves more attention: cyber hygiene. Cyber hygiene Read More …

Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation

Around 50,000 ASUS routers have been compromised in a sophisticated attack that researchers believe may be linked to China, according to findings released today by SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team. Dubbed “Operation WrtHug”, the campaign exclusively targets end-of-life ASUS WRT routers, exploiting Read More …

Cyber Criminal Proxy Services Exploiting End of Life Routers

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is issuing this announcement to inform individuals and businesses about proxy services taking advantage of end of life routers that are susceptible to vulnerabilities. When a hardware device is end of life, the manufacturer Read More …

Whitehall wide open to cyber-attack, warn campaigners

Government departments responsible for running health and social care, and for collecting taxes, are using outdated software that leaves them wide open to cyber-attacks, according to a disturbing new investigation. The use of “legacy” servers and databases has been uncovered Read More …

SonicWall releases urgent notice about ‘imminent’ ransomware targeting firmware

Networking device maker SonicWall sent out an urgent notice to its customers about “an imminent ransomware campaign using stolen credentials” that is targeting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series and Secure Remote Access (SRA) products running unpatched and end-of-life 8.x Read More …

CISCO says it won’t patch 74 security bugs in older RV routers that reached EOL

Networking equipment vendor Cisco said yesterday it was not going to release firmware updates to fix 74 vulnerabilities that had been reported in its line of RV routers, which had reached end-of-life (EOL). Affected devices include Cisco Small Business RV110W, Read More …