Smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi downloads all personal data

International Business Times  story The Xiaomi phones are sold in China and the head of global expansion was a Google executive. F-Secure a Finnish co.   and their blog: Finances of F-secure and more I know them as an Anti-Virus company among other things.  

Need to decrypt your files from cryptolocker infection?

FireEye and FoxIT have a website to recover your files from an infection – we have an old blogpost  about Synology systems getting infected and encrypted.   Here is the website from FireEye and FoxIT: https://decryptcryptolocker.com/

Dont pick up stray USB hard drives

Another social engineering hacking method is to leave USB hard drives for unsuspecting people. NetworkWorld.com article goes into some details of why the USB hard drive is insecure and can be easily programmed with malware (malicious software). This malware can be designed to inject itself into your computer, or a server. and without you knowing it … Read more

What systems did the attacker access?

Will your company ever ask this question?     Hopefully the FBI does not call you … As Jim Aldridge from Mandiant says in this youtube video the first thing that will happen is the FBI will call you in a somewhat cryptic manner… Tell you the systems that were compromised and what systems compromised them. That’s … Read more

Why perform pentesting?

In 2011 Cisco put out a report  there are 12.5 Billion devices connected to the Internet  and since we have 6.8 Billion people there are more devices than people (tablets, smartphones etc). In fact according to this Cisco report the year 2008 is when the number of connected items (or Internet of things) exceeded the number … Read more