The “Five Eyes” alliance along with government representatives for India and Japan, have demanded that technology companies insert “backdoors” in encrypted apps to give LEAs the access they say needed to police online delinquency. In a statement, the officials of the US, India, Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Japan said that Continue Reading
This week, the United States announced that it captured as many as 92 domain names that an Iran-linked rival was leveraging in a worldwide propaganda drive. It said that four of the domains appeared to be authentic news outlets, but they were controlled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Continue Reading
On Monday, Microsoft said that Iranian cybercriminals are taking advantage of the Zerologon flaw in several hacking campaigns. Successful attacks would let hackers take over servers called domain controllers (DC) that are the foci of most enterprise networks and allow interlopers to gain full control over their targets. The company Continue Reading
Zerologon is the name that has been given to a vulnerability identified in CVE-2020-1472. Due to the flaw in the logon process, it is called zerologon, where the initialization vector (IV) is set to all zeros all the time, while a random number should still be an initialization vector (IV). Continue Reading
Cyberterrorism is undoubtedly one of the hottest topics being discussed these days. In fact, the terms cyberterrorism and cyber warfare have become bywords in the parlance of cybersecurity. What is cyberterrorism? This refers to the use of the internet in order to carry out vicious activities that either threaten or Continue Reading
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