Why put such an emphasis on keeping up with the Security news? When a new hack comes out it takes time to create the attacks and the defenses, that initial time from the vulnerability being introduced is the most important time you have. Once the Vulnerability is introduced then there is a certain time … Read more
I’m always monitoring multiple newsfeeds for the latest Security news (this is why I set up my top30 Security News Analyzed page). In my review I found the following 2 links which are tied into a recurring theme us security people attempt to work through. CIO’s real security headache http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-cios-real-security-headache/ Six technical measures … Read more
There are many articles gleefully advancing when Mozilla and Chrome stopped Flash from running on Tuesday of this week. (until the new vulnerability was patched) readwrite: http://readwrite.com/2015/07/15/firefox-mozilla-kill-adobe-flash there is even a movement against Flash now: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mozilla-blocks-flash-in-firefox,29583.html With an interesting militant image: Why did this happen? Well the problem is that Flash is multi-platform and multi-browser … Read more
2 major stories of note today, first a Vietnamese http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/id-theft-service-proprietor-gets-13-years/ Obviously from the KrebsonSecurity website Screenshot as of July15 morning. Mr. Ngo had a ‘business’ that sold identity information to other entities for millions of dollars, with the full number of stolen identities unknown. At least 13673 US citizens had their identities stolen and had their … Read more
http://www.darkreading.com/cloud/inside-a-vicious-ddos-attack/a/d-id/1321286 has the full story – it is worth your time for you to read it. The technical overview by the CEO is the following (from article): { The assailants hit with 10- to 15 gigabytes per second (Gbps) of traffic – 250 times our standard rate. When I called my peers in banking and … Read more
