Newsflash: Software has bugs – 0day vulnerabilities
FireEye and Kaspersky had zero-day vulnerability bugs in their software. http://www.zdnet.com/article/fireeye-kaspersky-hit-with-zero-day-flaw-claims/ It is not news that software has flaws, and that some flaws are vulnerabilities that can be exploited by…
Best computer Jokes #Cyberjoke Friday v1.5
Best image from Google image search ” computer jokes” What can be described as funniest joke? Well there is an Edinburgh fringe joke contest and in 2011 there was a…
Application Security Testing : Do It Now
Yes as Veracode says: https://www.veracode.com/blog/2015/07/application-security-assessment-reviewing-your-testing-program-sw They list 3 misconceptions: QA (Quality Assurance) is when development is done. Third party software does not need testing Developers don’t care about security We…
Dangerous Vulnerability? Some Routers Bad UPnP Authentication
This is the problem with some security issues(complicated technical issues that require expertise to fix): http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/361684 Home routers implementing the UPnP protocol do not sufficiently randomize UUIDs in UPnP control…
How To Stay Secure in Insecure World
I want to highlight 2 current articles: http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/pawn-storm-serves-malware-via-fake/ and http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/07/new-research-comparing-how-security.html It is best to use good passwords, 2factor authentication, and patch your systems The first article points to how a…