The keynote presentation this year at RSA carried three major themes: Better Together, Trust, and Artificial Intelligence. Better Together We were treated with a surprise keynote opening by Dame Helen Mirren, who gave an inspirational speech on the influence that every security practitioner in the room has on the security of our world. She walked […]
We know it’s controversial – but don’t rule out paying the ransom to unscramble your biz files, experts suggest As ransomware infections continue, conventional wisdom on how to respond to threats is going out the window.… The Register – Security
Linux users, beware! If you haven’t recently updated your Linux operating system, especially the command-line text editor utility, do not even try to view the content of a file using Vim or Neovim. Security researcher Armin Razmjou recently discovered a high-severity arbitrary OS command execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-12735) in Vim and Neovim—two most popular and powerful […]
Welcome to Vim Sh*tty 2000 Proof-of-concept text files are now available that, when opened in a vulnerable installation of the Vim and Neovim, will execute commands on the underlying machine, or even open a backdoor.… The Register – Security
