Month: July 2017
Un-patched Systems
https://www.cnet.com/news/most-android-users-running-outdated-security-patches-report-says/ An article on March 23, 2017 from C|Net reports that 71% of Android users on major U.S. cellular carriers…
Repetitive nature of problems
Working in the Information Security industry, I follow as much information as I can on the attacks and vulnerabilities that occur in our industry. Sometimes these attacks occur as a result of new or…
The Evils of MD5
I have a new cause. I didn’t expect to have one, but we don’t always get to choose. Sometimes, the issues choose us. In February 2017, the cryptographic hashing algorithm SHA-1 was broken in…