Let’s say you have not replaced your firewall or thought about it much for some time. Is it time to replace it? There are ‘new’ firewalls called Next Generation firewalls (NGFW for short) because we like our acronyms. First we have to assess risk and decide if this is a good usage of resources (maybe … Read more
Foxglovesecurity has found a problem in Java(From 11/6): http://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-weblogic-websphere-jboss-jenkins-opennms-and-your-application-have-in-common-this-vulnerability/ And the interesting thing is that Oracle is trying to sell their products and services to everyone as cloud Applications. What you don’t know is that there is no patch for a Java Library containing a vulnerability that has code to hack it for 9 … Read more
This image explains (from PCWorld Article) The Ransomware image that can occupy your computer if you had the misfortune of downloading the wrong item (malware – virus, etc). Or if your computer was already Pwned (taken over somehow by criminal hackers) and then the criminal sold your computer access to the Ransomware criminal. That is … Read more
The Wifi device that you have (either yourself or by someone else) are setup with: Decide on naming your device, and also decide on the encryption technology to set up the network(your Internet access). Of course you could decide not to encrypt but in that case you are screwed security wise. So let’s assume that … Read more
SecTor presentation by Kristin Lovejoy at http://2015.video.sector.ca/video/144598380 There are several business disrupters: The Cloud is changing how software is developed and thus how security should look at the cloud Agile Programming methodology is changing not just how we develop software but also how we look at security. Agile programming is reducing the time from … Read more