Here is a picture of a lock, since everyone has one (the above is a picture of a hotel lock). We don’t buy a house with a Door that has no lock. The lock cost is not high compared to the other items in the house, including land, wood structure, electric lines, and more. … Read more
All companies on the Internet have a firewall, even an older filtering firewall. here is a simplistic diagram of Internet – Modem – Firewall – Local Switch – Computers on network. Do you know what your firewall looks like from the Internet? When a hacker looks at your network how does your firewall actually … Read more
If you are not in the IT field who would understand all the details of a potential hack-attack, here are some headlines in news today that may not create a full picture: http://www.darkreading.com/perimeter/ddos-attackers-exploiting-80s-era-routing-protocol/d/d-id/1321138? Which means the old RIPv1 or Routing Information Protocol has abilities that can be exploited. If you have an old router, or … Read more
As I was going through the Top 100Cyber Security blogs one post stood out to me: http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/29/technology/credit-card-machine-hack/ Apparently 90% of all credit card machines have the default password , which happens to be: 166816 and Z66816 since 1990. So there are several problems here: 1. The same default password for many years by the manufacturers … Read more
New devices and old alike: The issue with WiFi is that it is a network piece that can bite you if you are not aware of it. In PCI compliance the relevant section (besides the sections for configuring your device correctly at 4.1) The testing of Wireless networks is in 11.1: … Read more