by Joakim Lindström | April 29 | Newsletters
A firewall is a kind of blockade between a secure and an unsafe network, which can be between a local intranet and the entire internet. The basic function of a firewall is to allow internal users access authorized resources outward while ...
by Joakim Lindström | April 22 | Newsletters
A security researcher has entered the French government's new chat application, "Tchap", just days after its release. The application, which is intended to be used only by government employees and politicians, is encrypted, but a vulnerability in ...
by Joakim Lindström | April 15 | Newsletters
Fines of millions of kronor are nothing new for IT companies. Nor does it seem to stop them from breaking the law - which makes the Russian court decision to fine Facebook at 3000 rubles, respectively 430 kronor, even more astonishing. The fine came in connection with ...
by Joakim Lindström | April 8 | Newsletters
Security researchers have discovered two cases of call security on Facebook. On two Amazon cloud servers, over 540 million Facebook-related tasks were openly available. The data is estimated to touch millions of Facebook users. Both cloud servers were discovered ...
by Joakim Lindström | April 1 | Newsletters
Asus, one of the world's largest computer manufacturers, was subjected to a targeted attack on their update system. The attack, named Shadow Hammer, was discovered by the security company Kaspersky Lab, who announced Asus on January 22nd. That the attack was announced ...