Time to Drop Flash? How about Java?
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…
Criminal Vietnamese Caught Selling Identities – Patch Tuesday Has Critical Patches
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…
DDoS Attacked HotSchedules -Down For 45 Hrs
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…
With ABC Inc. Product You Will Be Safe
InformationWeek Dark Reading has another article bemoaning the proliferation of Cybersecurity products: http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/in-the-cyber-realm-lets-be-knights-not-blacksmiths/a/d-id/1321176 Yes in a couple of weeks (at BlackHat USA 8/1- 8/6) there will be many new products…
How Much$ Can Good IT Security Save You?
http://oversitesentry.com/cisco-vni-says-3x-more-data-by-2019/ Above image is from my post May 31, 2015 – as Cisco surveyed data traffic 2014-2019 (going up – Internet traffic will triple) We know there will be more…