An interesting paper on the analysis of the frequency of data breaches. It is an attempt by Benjamin Edwards, Steven Hofmeyr, and Stephanie Forrest. These researchers obtained the data from https://www.privacyrights.org breach info. The PRC(Privacy Rights Clearinghouse) has compiled a Chronology of Data Breaches” dataset that, as of February 23, 2015, contains information on 4,486 publicized data breaches that have occurred … Read more
As I was scanning the Internet for interesting relevant articles this is the one I thought was unique in discussing a fundamental issue of our time(in 2015) http://www.infoworld.com/article/2616931/firewall-software/why-you-don-t-need-a-firewall.html Plus Roger Grimes discusses buffer overflows. { For nearly three decades, remote buffer overflows were the most dreaded tool in the hacker’s arsenal. Simply find an open … Read more
Threatpost has the story: https://threatpost.com/court-rules-ftc-has-authority-to-punish-wyndham-over-breaches/114390 From the court brief http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/143514p.pdf are some interesting snippets: Let’s list the cybersecurity problems that Wyndham had: Stored CC data (which is a violation of PCI standard) Passwords were simple (Example: “micros” in a Micros computer default pw) Did not use firewalls between their corporate network, property management system, … Read more
We have to continue “learning” from high profile hacks. As you may have read in the news a “dating” site that attracts extra marital hookups has been hacked by some hackers. The after action report in detail has not been released so nothing really to learn from the hacking itself. Except the usual – I … Read more
The talk on pdf form at Defcon media servers: Inter-VM data exfiltration – The art of cache timing covert channel on x86 multi-core By Etienne Martineau a kernel developer. So how can you steal data from one instance while being on another in the same hypervisor machine – you see the … Read more
