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Decipher Podcast: Adam O’Donnell

Adam O'Donnell, a longtime security engineer, startup founder, and member of the Cult of the Dead Cow, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the group, its influence, and his career in security.

Podcast

Large BGP Leak Hits European Mobile Carriers

A BGP route leak by a hosting company affected traffic from several European mobile carriers this week.

BGP

GoldBrute Botnet Is Brute-Forcing Windows RDP

A new botnet is scanning the internet and brute-forcing Remote Desktop Protocol connections to compile a list of vulnerable hosts, usernames, and passwords.

Remote Access, RDP, Botnet

Odd Bug Haunts Exim Mail Agent

The Exim MTA used in many Linux distributions contains a vulnerability that is trivially exploitable locally and can be exploited remotely in some cases.

Vulnerabilities

NSA Joins Chorus Urging Speedy Patching for BlueKeep

The United States NSA urging enterprises and individuals to install the update addressing the BlueKeep vulnerability on Windows systems as soon as possible.

Patch, Microsoft, Vulnerability