Memorial Day 2015 Thoughts
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118014402282815483 An excellent tribute and a very good expanation in 2007 Memorial Day and today 8 years later: Once we knew who and what to honor on Memorial Day: those…
Are We Falling Behind on Patching Computers?
I.e. Bruce Schneier quote: Can we patch vulnerabilities faster than attackers can exploit them? The University of maryland, College park has a website project: https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~tdumitra/blog/2015/04/15/impact-of-shared-code-on-vulnerability-patching/ In my opinion the crux…
Another Major Security Flaw (Website Encryption Technology) Called Logjam
A new report came out https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf The group of researchers created a website to explain their findings: The Logjam Attack (https://weakdh.org) It looks like they also did a scan of…
3 MUST DO in #Cybersecurity
We have all heard or seen the headlines Sony gets hacked, Home Depot Credit Card processing stolen, Target credit Card processing stolen, and more and more companies are all getting…
2nd Tuesday(Patch Tuesday) came & went now what?
I did not post about Patch Tuesday last week, So here is the rundown of what happened: Microsoft: Cisco issued an Advisory on the 13th (Wednesday actually) http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20150513-tp It is…