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A noted Ethereum developer has been sentenced to more than five years behind bars after pleading guilty to helping North Korea evade sanctions. Virgil Griffith, 39, initially pleaded not guilty back in January 2020, following his arrest at Los Angeles International Airport in November 2019. However, he changed that plea last year. He conspired to provide technical advice to the hermit kingdom on how to circumvent sanctions by using cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, according to the…

Sysadmins will have a busy time ahead after Microsoft published fixes for over 100 CVEs this month, including two zero-day bugs. April’s Patch Tuesday saw patches released for 119 vulnerabilities in total. The two publicly disclosed prior to Tuesday were CVE-2022-24521, a bug in the Windows Common Log File System Driver (CLFS) reported by the NSA. Already exploited in the wild, the vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 and could allow privilege escalation. The CLFS…

There’s a saying in the cybersecurity community which states that just because you are compliant doesn’t mean that you are secure. Over the years, many images have been used to illustrate the point. One memorable image is that of a nude bicyclist wearing a helmet. By all standards, that is the epitome of “compliant, but not secure”.  Many organizations have shifted the focus away from merely achieving compliance, to being both compliant and secure. Security is often more difficult…

Australia is facing a technology skills crisis. Enterprises everywhere are having trouble finding the people they need to carry out key roles in their IT departments in just about every discipline, from data analytics to cloud computing and cyber security. A February 2021 report by RMIT Online with Deloitte Access Economics claimed that Australia needs 156,000 new technology workers with 87% of jobs requiring digital skills. Further, more than half of the Australian working professionals…

Human error is endemic to data breaches. Process automation can minimize the risk. By Gregory Hoffer, CEO, Coviant Software Human error is the most common cause of a data breach, and it’s not even close. A 2020 study by Stanford University found that an astounding 88% of data breaches involved human error. Whether as a root cause or as a critical component in a chain of events, somewhere along the line a human being took…

Tag CVE Count CVEs Windows File Explorer 1 CVE-2022-26808 Windows Upgrade Assistant 1 CVE-2022-24543 Windows Work Folder Service 1 CVE-2022-26807 Windows Fax Compose Form 3 CVE-2022-26916, CVE-2022-26917, CVE-2022-26918 Windows iSCSI Target Service 1 CVE-2022-24498 Microsoft Local Security Authority Server (lsasrv) 1 CVE-2022-24493 Windows Installer 2 CVE-2022-24530, CVE-2022-24499 Visual Studio 3 CVE-2022-24513, CVE-2022-24765, CVE-2022-24767 Windows Common Log File System Driver 2 CVE-2022-24521, CVE-2022-24481 Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock 1 CVE-2022-24494 Microsoft Windows ALPC 2 CVE-2022-24482,…