From http://www.glasbergen.com/wp-content/gallery/computer-cartoons/toon-1288.gif There are a lot more of many kinds of cartoons at glasbergen.com I like this one: JimmyKimmel – and his Cyber Security 3min on the street worth viewing http://vidworthy.com/cybersecurity-no-never-heard-of/ What is your password Jamieson What is your password? my dogs name and the year I graduated from high School Jamieson2009 … Read more
Am reading one of the articles from my Security Analyzed page at Network World http://www.networkworld.com/article/2309917/lan-wan/lan-wan-router-man.html William Yaeger created the multi protocol router from ireport.cnn.com: Christmas 1979 it happened. {Yeager goes on to describe how they used router technology as a connection from the Standford Medical School to the Department of Computer Science. He describes the … Read more
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-oct.aspx Has several patches including MS15-106 ” One memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2015-6056) has been publicly disclosed.” from the following link: https://msisac.cisecurity.org/advisories/2015/2015-121.cfm As far as Microsoft patches go – the ones that patch remote code execution in the vulnerability impact column. And 4 of the 6 have remote code execution. As a systems person I … Read more
David Krebs story: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/at-experian-security-attrition-amid-acquisitions/ I want to focus on Board of Directors decisions to grow through acquisition, wanting to do growth securely, but in practice has lots of problems. The term I like the most is Black Box Magic. (as if security is gotten with a black box magic) image from Martin’s Magic collection: http://www.martinsmagic.com/product-tag/wagoncollector/ … Read more
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/iranian-hackers-used-visual-basic-malware-to-wipe-vegas-casinos-network/ A very interesting story of Iranian hackers (whether government sponsored or sanctioned does not matter) attacked and deleted a lot of files using Visual Basic. (I know from 2014 attack – but that is when we get the most amount of data sometimes…) Apparently the billionaire owner pissed off some hacktivists in Iran after … Read more
