Page 7 - Tim Mackey News Today

Single Fastly Customer Sparked Global Internet Meltdown Yesterday’s wide-scale internet outage was triggered when a single Fastly customer changed their settings, it has emerged. The problem took place on Tuesday June 8, when Fastly, a cloud computing services company, experienced a bug on its content delivery network (CDN). This led to several major websites, including Amazon, Reddit, The Guardian and New York Times being forced offline for 30-40 minutes from around 11am. Additionally, spec...

Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on February 17, 2021 in Washington, D.C. A White House executive order is spurring discussions on the merits and drawbacks of mandating third party code testing. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) The cybersecurity executive order issued by President Joe Biden in May covered a lot of ground, moving the needle on issues like breach reporting, zero trust ar...

Human brains rely on shortcuts to be efficient. But these shortcuts leave us vulnerable to false information.

Porcorex / Bluebay2014 / Getty Images Pop quiz: What has been the most popular — and therefore least secure — password every year since 2013? If you answered “password,” you’d be close. “Qwerty” is another contender for the dubious distinction, but the champion is the most basic, obvious password imaginable: “123456.” Yes, tons of people still use “123456” as a password, according to NordPasss 200 most common passwords of the year for 2020, which is based o...

The number of components in the average application rose 77% over two years. No wonder, then, that 84% of codebases have at least one vulnerability.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today released the 2021 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report. The report, produced by the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC), examines the results of more than 1,500 audits of commercial codebases, performed by the Black Duck® Audit Services team. The report highlights trends in open source usage within commercial applications and…

BankInfoSecurity May 5, 2021 DougOlenick) • April 5, 2021     Get Permission The revelation that 533 million previously stolen Facebook account records have been made public on a darknet forum should inspire organizations to take aggressive action to further protect customer data security, some security experts say. Although the data posted on the forum is several years old, it still poses risks because so much of ...

Prompt disclosure shake-up follows SolarWinds calamity Software vendors will be obliged to promptly notify their US federal government customers in the event of any security breach, a draft executive order from President Joe Biden’s administration proposes. The order – which follows the high impact SolarWinds breach late last year – would also mandate the use of multi-factor authentication and data encryption within US federal agencies, Reuters reports. In addition, the order would compel...

Cyber-intelligence firm finds personal data of 533 million Facebook users posted online

Patch Tuesday overshadowed by Microsoft Exchange attacks Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday update drops amid ongoing fall-out from widespread Exchange attacks Share this item with your network: By Published: 10 Mar 2021 11:40 Microsoft has patched a total of 89 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in its latest Patch Tuesday update, which dropped on 9 March, including 14 bugs rated as critical – but the latest round of updates is overshadowed by the developing crisis around four C...