HIPAA Enforcement: 10% of any covered entity Will be audited says Office for Civil rights

At Showmecon  (www.showmecon.com – June8,9 2015) I went to a HIPAA compliance talk by Hudson Harris “HIPAA 2015- Wrath of the Audits”   It was an excellent talk by Hudson Harris  @legallevity  (his Twitter account) And this is what my report (or what I got out of it) is:   1.  10% of all HIPAA covered … Read more

Criminal Hackers Have 1000% ROI on Ransomware & Exploits

Trustedwave released a 110 page Global Security Report This article will review the ROI portion of the report.   This report focuses on breaches on TrustedWave investigations (as Trustedwave has many security services and products) so this report is trying to help sell their services. One could say it is a competitor of consultants and … Read more

Cyber Defense is Hard and NOT Glamerous

Whereas Hacking is hard but includes a level of cool factor in the world (criminal or ethical). A new report came out yesterday from Rand.org: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1024.html   It is a PDF that can be downloaded for free and is only 162 pages. http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1000/RR1024/RAND_RR1024.pdf    (if you have not noticed, on my site unless the link … Read more

Hackers Find Ways to Attack

It seems to me there is a large disconnect of how a hacker does their work. There are lot of youtube videos with hackers showing how they have hacked something. How can hackers seemingly get in complicated defenses? (not all hackers are criminal in nature)   The following shows some of the combinations within a … Read more

Criminal Hackers Will Find Your Weaknesses

Criminal tattoos – these are the guys attacking us.  The Criminals have multitude of tools at their disposal, just like anybody with technical aptitude does. And just like water flows and creates new channels as it runs downhill the hacker will find your weakness. Because the Hacker Economy is now in the hundreds of millions … Read more