A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Three surprises this week with the first, well, I don’t think any kind of lead in will help. Just go for it, it’s a crazy one...

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. After a long occasional rumble of consumer network devices failing the basics of security, a huge storm of failures were highlighted across a swath of devices this week. If you are thinking of going shopping for a network device you had better take a look at this first.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Wikipedia’s DDOS attack hit the news this week, and their plight drew an amazing donation to help further their defensive capabilities.

We often receive questions regarding the use of frameworks with the ionCube Encoder, and one such framework is Symfony. This article covers the most significant consideration a programmer using the Symfony framework takes in order to protect their code. Symfony not only uses the doc comments but scans the source code for “use” statements. Obviously, scanning the source code is not possible with encoded files.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. A great example of (half) forgotten linked app this week via, quite unforgettably, from the Twitter CEO. I’m sure we all have linked services together as authentication of to bridge a data conduit just to do a trial or something and neglected to remove it afterwards. Well…. That lapse could come back to bite in the future.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. What a week of news this has been, more MageCart, a few large take downs, and some surprising breaches. We start with a first, the first ‘hack’ from space.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. While we marvel at the sophisticated attacks, as with most crime, it’s the simple tricks while people have their guard down that get through. Here is a wonderful little article by the folks at SANS on one such example, yes, for most of us we might spot an obvious faked URL but for others or if we’re not paying enough attention one tap and its game over.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Such an amazing choice of juicy news articles this week! I will skip the seriously weird and rapidly escalating circumstances of the Capital One breach, and instead dive into the some of the more low key, but nevertheless interesting items. First up, and for those of you who post infosec articles, something you will understand: stock photos.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Social media take-overs can be quite disastrous, and a recent UK law inforcement breach certainly caused a lot of embarrassment.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Going for a theme this week and ignoring the NAS devices spewing data and amusingly named new malware. The theme is Bluetooth.