Tom Spring, Author at AZGAD WEBSITE SECURITY BLOG

Google’s Pixel and Apple’s iPhone both in privacy hot seat for siphoning mobile device data without consent.

Malware Vulnerabilities

2021-03-09 Tom Spring

Crypto-Miner Campaign Targets Unpatched QNAP NAS Devices

Researchers warn two critical bugs impacting multiple QNAP firmware versions are under active attack.

Hacks mobile security Vulnerabilities

2021-03-04 Tom Spring

Unpatched Bug in WiFi Mouse App Opens PCs to Attack

Wireless mouse-utility lacks proper authentication and opens Windows systems to attack.

Hacks mobile security Vulnerabilities

2021-03-04 Tom Spring

Unpatched Bug in WiFi Mouse App Opens PCs to Attack

Wireless mouse-utility lacks proper authentication and opens Windows systems to attack.

Malware mobile security Vulnerabilities

2021-03-02 Tom Spring

Mobile Adware Booms, Online Banks Become Prime Target for Attacks

A snapshot of the 2020 mobile threat landscape reveals major shifts toward adware and threats to online banks.

Malware Web Security

2021-02-19 Tom Spring

Apple Outlines 2021 Security, Privacy Roadmap

Latest Apple Platform Security update folds iOS, macOS and hardware into security 2021 roadmap.

cryptography

2021-02-02 Tom Spring

SolarWinds Hack Prompts Congress to Put NSA in Encryption Hot Seat

Congress is demanding the National Security Agency come clean on what it knows about the 2015 supply-chain attack against Juniper Networks.

cryptography Malware

2021-01-27 Tom Spring

DanaBot Malware Roars Back into Relevancy

Sophisticated and dangerous, DanaBot has resurfaced after laying dormant for seven months.

IoT Malware

2021-01-18 Tom Spring

Medical Device Security: Diagnosis Critical

Medical-device security has long been a challenge, suffering the same uphill management battle that the entire sprawling mess of IoT gadgets has faced.

Vulnerabilities

2021-01-13 Tom Spring

Critical Microsoft Defender Bug Actively Exploited; Patch Tuesday Offers 83 Fixes

The first Patch Tuesday security bulletin for 2021 from Microsoft includes fixes for one bug under active attack, possibly linked to the massive SolarWinds hacks.