Month: May 2015

Cisco VNI Says 3x More Data by 2019

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  Cisco’s survey of Global network traffic is being reviewed by Network Daily, so I thought I would discuss some of its ramifications for IT security. White paper link: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/white_paper_c11-520862.pdf   Network World Link: “Cisco Sees Internet Half Full” http://www.networkworld.com/article/2928657/cisco-subnet/cisco-sees-internet-half-full.html 24 Billion devices will be on the Internet by 2019 up from 14 Billion in 2014.   … Read more

Health Records Breached: No CyberInsurance Payout Why? Stupidity

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following story says that 32,000 patient records were placed on an insecure server on the Internet  within the Cottage Health System. http://www.noozhawk.com/article/class-action_lawsuit_aimed_cottage_hospital_records_breach Unfortunately a simple Google search would reveal these patient records which is against the HIPAA privacy guidelines. Apparently the Hospital did have cyberinsurance from Columbia Casualty  insurance according to https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/05/28/we-dont-cover-stupid-says-cyber-insurer-thats-fighting-a-payout/   Santa Barbara hospital … Read more

Why Do Constant Vulnerability Analysis?

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What can we do to shore up our defenses? If you already have a firewall, an IDS/IPS, an anti-virus software.  Is that all there is to make your network as close to impervious as possible?   I.e. the six sigma security that I have discussed in past blogposts: http://oversitesentry.com/assume-you-are-hacked-so-get-6-sigma-security/ How to test your environment? – … Read more

DARKNET- Know it – Learn it

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 also called the “Deepweb” Guess what the IRS was hacked, which actually means we were hacked. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/report-irs-admits-its-been-hacked-tax-info-stolen-for-100000-plus/ In the thousands of breaches all over the world, the criminals are building a dossier data file on all of us that have any PII – Personal Identifiable Information. Addresses (old and new), answers to questions like what … Read more

How-Why Hackers Do What They Do?

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After a long Weekend  I wonder if there is a good enough understanding of how(and why) hackers do what they do – i.e. What makes a hacker want to take control of an airplane just to see if they can do it? There is a widely discussed Wired article: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-commandeered-plane/  about hacking an airplane and potentially … Read more