Old sometimes is not gold, especially when it comes to ancient versions of ColdFusion running on versions of Windows that have reached their end-of-life, as the global security firm Sophos has demonstrated through its research into a server that was taken over by unknown actors using the Cring ransomware.
A relatively new strain of Windows ransomware known as Cring has been noticed attacking Fortigate VPN servers using a vulnerability which has the reference CVE-2018-13379.
Most cybersecurity is making up for weak platforms. We need to address the fundamentals, design platforms that prevent out-of-bounds access[…]
For most developers the security/performance trade off is still the hardest one to tackle, even as the cost of processing[…]
RISC has been overhyped. While it is an interesting low-level processor architecture, what the world needs is high-level system architectures,[…]
There are two flaws that are widespread in the industry here. The first is that any platform or language should[…]
Ajai Chowdhry, one of the founders and CEO of HCL is married to a cousin of a cousin of mine.[…]