A breach has many looks… THE fundamental problem is highlighted in this article: http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/15mn-affected-medical-information/ Besides the obvious headline grabber “1.5mil records stolen by hackers.” I am going to compile a few sentences from the article and then discuss: {He added, “Every healthcare firm, large and small, that stores patient data is at risk of a … Read more
A great Murphy’s law site on the Net: http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-computer.html All murphy’s laws, but I want to focus on computers… and specifically Cybersecurity Compiled the 6 of them on my top10… First the only “security” mentions * Law of Anti-security The best way past a pesky security feature is a 13-year-old. * Lulled into Security … Read more
A 30-year old scrap processor was hoping not to be in a national Newspaper article about what not to do with your information security. http://www.wsj.com/articles/hackers-trick-email-systems-into-wiring-them-large-sums-1438209816 Some Nigerians set up malware on the unsuspecting Metals scrapper computers. So now the malware stole the email password and other email information. Then the Nigerians did what all … Read more
As we prepare for the next attack (also waiting for BlackHat2015) I remember the Pearl harbor movie: TORA!TORA!TORA! 1970 Classic Tora Tora Tora トラ・トラ・トラ means “We have achieved complete surprise” in Japanese codeword. A translation is Tiger. Tora (Tορα) is translated to “now” from Greek. Torah is the law in hebrew or better known as the … Read more
All it takes is one patch is missed, One computer not taken care of. Computers must be patched so that Zero-day exploits have minimal affects. We discussed this on July 20th http://oversitesentry.com/why-security-news-scrutinized-to-nth-degree/ Let’s review: After a vulnerability is introduced, an exploit hits the “wild” and then the clock starts ticking, the attackers(criminal hackers) and defenders(software … Read more
