A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. Those movies where they zoom in and sharpen the CCTV footage to absolute clarity is one step closer! (just kidding).
The trusty webcam used to be a “nice to have” for the occasional job interview, virtual hangout, or simple YouTube recording. But that all changed when the pandemic started. In just a few months it became a daily tool for people around the world, from fully remote businesses to families and friends kept apart in lockdown.
Over the last few years, the “idea that every company is a technology company a fundamental shift in our industry” (Suzie Prince, Head of Product, DevOps, Atlassian). The sheer dominance of development as a craft has led to a bigger audience and a much louder voice that centers on the developer perspective.
We’ve heard a lot about “supply chains” of various industries over the past couple of years, and the cybersecurity sector is no exception. When Colonial Pipeline was compromised by ransomware, it affected the physical supply of gasoline to consumers. On the software side, malware distributed through a SolarWinds update and vulnerabilities discovered in Apache’s Log4J created rippling effects for organizations around the world.