Author: Asad Yaseen

During a video conference of the members of the European Council, EU leaders agreed on a new strategy aimed at boosting defense and security.  During the recent video conference of the members of the European Council (25-26 February 2021), NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg highlighted the importance to define a strategy to boost defense and security. “We want to act more strategically, to defend our interests and to promote our values.” said Charles Michel, President of the…

Whether paying ransom for data held hostage makes sense depends on many variables. Experts define the variables and why they’re important. Image: vchal, Getty Images/iStockphoto Whether to pay ransom in order to unlock hijacked data or stop a Distributed Denial of Service attack is a hot topic right now. Like many other issues, on the surface it appears to be a simple yes or no decision. However, if you take in the whole picture, making…

Android 11: How to enable enhanced randomize MAC addresses Length: 1:00 | Mar 2, 2021 Android 11 allows users to enable the Wi-Fi-Enhanced MAC randomization. Jack Wallen shows you how. Source link

Too many people shrug off SELinux on their data center systems. Jack Wallen says it’s time to stop giving into that siren song so your operating systems are weakened. Image: iStock/sdecoret Given the kerfuffle that has been CentOS lately, and the number of inevitable forks that will rise out of the ashes, there will probably be a large percentage of admins migrating to, or finally deploying, a Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux…

A federal judge in Washington state has dismissed a cyber-squatting claim brought by the Washington Chapter of The Satanic Temple. The United Federation of Churches LLC, doing business as The Satanic Temple, filed a lawsuit against a group of former Temple members who it claimed erased the contents of the Temple’s social media accounts and replaced it with content that was critical of the organization. In 2014, the Washington Chapter created a business page on Facebook to…

A threat actor stole the identities of recipients of the US Congressional Medal of Honor and used their personal data to purchase goods from American military exchanges.  According to a Secret Service search warrant application obtained by The Daily Beast, the identities of a third of the living holders of the US government’s highest and most prestigious military decoration were stolen in the attack. In the affidavit, Special Agent Matthew O’Neill writes the United States Secret Service…

The human race commonly fears what it doesn’t understand.  In a time of war, this fear is even greater if one side understands a weapon or technology that the other side does not.  There is a constant war which plagues cybersecurity; perhaps not only in cybersecurity, but in the world all around us is a battle between good and evil.  In cyber security if the “evil” side understands or pays more attention to a technology…