Recent findings have revealed significant security vulnerabilities in Ubiquiti’s line of cameras and routers, affecting over 20,000 devices worldwide. These vulnerabilities expose users to a range of cyber threats, including amplification attacks and privacy risks. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the issues identified, the potential impact on users, and the measures that can…
While millions of companies have been desperately trying to make their website GDPR compliant one of the biggest tech companies of them all has fallen foul of one of the biggest no-nos within the GDPR. A software vulnerability within Google+ exposed hundreds of thousands of users to a data leak during the period of 2015 and 2018 which…
In the past week, a hacking campaign has been launched on sites running Drupal to inject malicious code that will then mine crypto-currency on your computer. The campaign is believed to have successfully hacked 400 government, corporate, and university websites turning them into cryptocurrency mining platforms that surreptitiously drain visitors’ computers of electricity and computing…
With the GDPR looming many businesses will be looking to ensure their website is compliant. We have been working closely with multiple businesses to ensure this happens, and we are more than happy to help any new clients. Any website that captures identifiable user data needs to comply with the GDPR, which means if you…
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) looming you will no doubt be bombarded with emails from companies asking you to accept their new policies. This applies to all websites or any business that handles data, so basically every business. We have already covered some key areas of the GDPR but one area we think…
We love WordPress, and nearly all our sites are now developed in it, everyone else loves it too as it also powers 43% of the sites on the Internet. Unfortunately, that means it is a prime target for hackers. There is no point searching for an exploit in software that no one uses. With WordPress,…
We have already posted about Google Chrome starting to warn users when they are submitting data over a form that is not secured by HTTPS. Now Google is taking another step in ridding this internet of HTTP connections. Coming in July 2018, whenever a user navigates to an HTTP site in Chrome the Omnibox will…
For a lot of our clients we use the free SSL supplied by Cloudflare, but in some cases that is not possible and we need to buy a certificate. One of the issues we have encountered when using Virtualmin is that it doesn’t appear to install the SSL correctly and the chain.crt file is missing….
The internet traditionally ran over HTTP for everything that was not needed to be secure, the data between your computer and the server is passed over in a none encrypted format. Unfortunately, over the years data breaches, security exploits and hacking, in general, have made many people adopt the HTTPS standard. Using this, your data…
WannaCry has been one of the most disruptive cases of malware in history and it could have been a lot worse if it was coded better and didn’t allow a researcher to activate its killswitch so quickly. This also could represent the start of a much larger wave of malware being released. The team that…