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Articles and Comments By Eoin Keary

Expert Commentary
400,000 Users Exposed By API Vulnerability - Expert Comment
October 29 , 2021 by Eoin Keary
API Security is still not as mainstream as web application security. Although the technologies are v...
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Experts Reaction On McDonald's Leaks Password for Monopoly VIP Database
September 08 , 2021 by Eoin Keary
The Mcdonald\'s issue appears to be due to poor error handling. Error handling is discussed in both...
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Experts Responses on Verizon DBiR Findings
May 13 , 2021 by Eoin Keary
With the DBiR report, the team at Verizon provide an invaluable service to the security community ac...
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Cybersecurity Expert Commentary: Hacker Claims To Have Stolen Files Belonging To Law Firm Jones Day
February 17 , 2021 by Eoin Keary
In recent years legal and accountancy firms have been increasingly targeted as a pivot point to acce...
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UK Research And Innovation Suffers Ransomware Attack
February 02 , 2021 by Eoin Keary
The majority of ransomware attacks happen because of a combination of two factors: an unpatched, kno...
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VIP Games Data Breach Exposes Millions Of Users' Data
January 28 , 2021 by Eoin Keary
Unsecured servers are not uncommon and this comes down to a lack of visibility and asset monitoring....
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Multiple Backdoors And Vulnerabilities Discovered In FiberHome Routers
January 19 , 2021 by Eoin Keary
This is just another example of extremely poor IoT security, similar to how some of the Android Busy...
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Ring Is Testing End-To-End Encrypted Videos For Their Smart Doorbells
January 15 , 2021 by Eoin Keary
End-to-end encryption should be standard, not something people have to opt in to, in my opinion. Con...
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Experts Reaction On Australia Targeted By 'Sophisticated' Cyber Attack - By 'State-based' Actor
June 22 , 2020 by Eoin Keary
Nation state attacks are not uncommon and occur on a continuous basis so it’s interesting that thi...
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Industry Experts On Verizon DBiR 2020
May 19 , 2020 by Eoin Keary
Contributing to the Verizon DBiR helps us as an industry move the dial in a positive direction. We c...
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Experts Reaction On DHS CISA and FBI share list of top 10 most exploited vulnerabilities
May 14 , 2020 by Eoin Keary
The DHS report appears to align what we are seeing in the wild, detailed in the Edgescan Vulnerabili...
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Dell SupportAssist Bug Exposes Business, Home PCs To Attacks
February 11 , 2020 by Eoin Keary
Agents such as SupportAssist have access to users device in an autonomous way in order to monitor bo...
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Jeff Bezos' Phone Hacked By Saudi Crown Prince - Expert Comments
January 23 , 2020 by Eoin Keary
NSO develop spyware and malicious payloads for sale to the highest bidder. They sell to many nation...
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CEO Comments On 44 Million Microsoft Users Reused Passwords In Q1 2019
December 09 , 2019 by Eoin Keary
Why do people reuse passwords? Because they have way too many to remember. Work passwords, utilities...
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Security Expert On Facebook Announces Innovation In Data Portability With A New Photo Transfer Tool
December 03 , 2019 by Eoin Keary
Data portability recently became a legal requirement in certain places through laws such as GDPR an...
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Expert Insight On New Phoenix Keylogger Tries To Stop Over 80 Security Products To Avoid Detection
November 22 , 2019 by Eoin Keary
The Phoenix keylogger is advanced and production quality. It can not only log keystrokes, but also c...
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Cyberattack On UK Labour Party System - Experts Reactions
November 13 , 2019 by Eoin Keary
Cheap computing power and cloud availability has resulted in a rise of such Denial of service attack...
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Experts On Yet Another Warning For Android Users
October 25 , 2019 by Eoin Keary
One challenge that any playstore/appstore finds when validating apps for malware is that static anal...
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Experts Dots On Massive Database Of Facebook Users' FB IDs And Phone Numbers Found Online - On An Unprotected Server
September 06 , 2019 by Eoin Keary
This is not a technology issue but rather a process and procedure problem. Securing a server once it...
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Instagram's Lax Privacy Practices Let A Trusted Partner Track Millions Of Users' Physical Locations
August 12 , 2019 by Eoin Keary
This could be a violation of GDPR if there is EU citizens data being collected using the app. Harves...
Expert Commentary
Security Lapse Exposed Weak Points On Honda’s Internal Network
August 02 , 2019 by Eoin Keary
Continuous vulnerability management would have detected the issues and exposures that caused Honda\'...