Author Archives: Doan Nguyen

The rapid rise and outbreak of COVID-19 has led to many temporary and makeshift treatment centers. These treatment centers will likely utilize remote-care devices and will be connected to their system networks. This poses a security concern as temporary hospitals are remote and sit outside of a defense-in-depth architecture. The pop-up care centers are rifeContinue reading “As medical treatment centers for COVID-19 expand, so does vulnerabilities”

Multiple US agencies including the FBI and DHS issued warnings about a looming state sponsored cyber attack by North Korea. In response, the US government is offering up to $5 million for information regarding the cyber attacks. North Korea have been associated with mulitple cyber attacks in the past, including the WannaCry ramsonware attacks andContinue reading “US Prepares for NK Cyber Attacks”

It’s a good thing people have limited their travels recently, because two websites belonging to San Franciso Internation Airport were breached last March. SFO recently announced incidents on SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com. The two websites were mainly used by employees to access work contents and details on construction projects related to the airport. The incident involvesContinue reading “San Franciso Airport Websites Compromised”

Zoom Video Communications has seen a huge surge in attacks recently due to the demand in remote work and online meeting sessions. Besides worrying about privacy data sharing with certain companies such as Facebook, zoom bombings classrooms, and malware injection, researchers have uncovered 2 new zero day exploits on Mac OS that could give hackersContinue reading “2 New Zoom Zero Day Exploits”

Civil defense traditionally involves rescue workers, air wardens, and medics workers. In this current day and age, it involved cyber professional fighting against cyber criminals who look to exploit critical infrastructure systems in times of need. Cyber Security companies in Canada have recently formed an all-volunteer cyber defense initiative that will help protect critical systemsContinue reading “Canadian Cyber Civil Defense Assemble to Counter Cyber Covid-19 Attacks”

A college drop out made headlines after becoming an entreprenuer and starting a company of his own. The former student and his accomplice ran a fake call support center in India. Since January of last year, the team stole over 8 million dollars from over 40 thousand victims. People who called the tech support companyContinue reading “Dubious Tech Support Company Dupes Victims out of Dough”

The US Department of Homeland Security reports that an unidentified gas compression facility had recently shut down due to a cyber attack. The attack left the facility without access and visibility to certain data and operations, and management decided to shut down operations as a precaution. Other geographic compression facilities also had to halt operationsContinue reading “Gas Compression Plant Shuts Down Due to Ransomware”

Plastic surgery images and invoices were leaked from an unsecured database. Images included patients’ nude bodies, faces, open surgery, before and after pictures, and private parts. The unsecured database from a French company call NextMotion allowed anyone with the right IP address to view it’s file, says researchers from vpnMentor. Some laws that would beContinue reading “Plastic Surgery: Your Face on Cyber Space”

Coming straight out of a spy movie, hackers can now exfiltrate sensitive data from an air-gapped computer by simply adjusting the screen brightness of a computer. What is an air-gapped computer? An air-gapped computer is one that is isolated from unsecured networks and is not connected to any other systems that is connected to theContinue reading “Air Gapped Computers Not Safe From Data Exfiltration”

With the world in panic over the current novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, cyber criminals are hoping to exploit the situation by spreading computer viruses in online files. The cyber criminals hope to prey on people’s sense of urgency and wanting information to protect themselves by claiming that the files contain important updates regarding the coronavirus.Continue reading “CoronaVirus turns into Computer Virus”