Microsoft shown to handle its own, complicated RDP well. Security researchers analysing Remote Desktop clients for the popular remote desktop protocol, used to connect to non-local Windows machines, have unearthed multiple vulnerabilities.   Check Point analysed the FreeRDP and rdesktop (the default client for the Kali Linux penetration testing distribution) remote access tools, along with …

The Homeland Security Department is actually surging its efforts to protect elections against foreign hackers during the two years leading up to the 2020 elections — not winding them down, the agency’s top cybersecurity official insists.   Chris Krebs, who leads DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was punching back Thursday against a Daily Beast …

Home improvement site Houzz has announced that it suffered a data breach in which third-parties gained access to a file containing publicly visible user data as well private account information.   The company explained to users in an email that an unauthorized third-party obtained access to a file containing internal account information such as user …

Around this time every year, my inbox fills with the same repetitive junk.   “Would you consider putting [any random company] in your gift guide?”, “are you going to CES and if so can I pitch you [a gadget that literally won’t be around this time next year]?”, and, “do you want to cover [a …

As the new year begins gaining steam, there is ostensibly a piece of good news on the cyber front. Major cyber attacks have been in a lull in recent months and still are.   The good tidings are fleeting, however. Attacks typically come in waves. The next one is due, and 2019 will be the …

Girl Scouts of America has said it is offering girls as young as five a badge in cybersecurity.   It is part of an effort to get more young girls into science (S), technology (T), engineering (E) and maths (M) – or ‘stem’ subjects.   The scheme launched in Silicon Valley, California and it’s the …

The latest cyber attack on a major party campaign committee should lead to greater demands on vendors and consultants to implement stricter cybersecurity protocols.   That’s according to Brian Franklin, a Democratic media consultant who launched the cybersecurity practice Campaign Defense to better address security issues in the campaign space.   The campaign committees, he …