Best image from Google image search ” computer jokes” What can be described as funniest joke? Well there is an Edinburgh fringe joke contest and in 2011 there was a good one: from http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-14646532 1) Nick Helm: “I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.” … Read more
Yes as Veracode says: https://www.veracode.com/blog/2015/07/application-security-assessment-reviewing-your-testing-program-sw They list 3 misconceptions: QA (Quality Assurance) is when development is done. Third party software does not need testing Developers don’t care about security We have to perform QA during development as well as after. All software needs security testing and not just functional testing. Sio what should you … Read more
This is the problem with some security issues(complicated technical issues that require expertise to fix): http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/361684 Home routers implementing the UPnP protocol do not sufficiently randomize UUIDs in UPnP control URLs, or implement other UPnP security measures. This attack has the beginnings of a potential problem, some vendors have sufficient protection built-in: “Some vendors have … Read more
I want to highlight 2 current articles: http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/pawn-storm-serves-malware-via-fake/ and http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/07/new-research-comparing-how-security.html It is best to use good passwords, 2factor authentication, and patch your systems The first article points to how a fake website was set up and delivers a zero-day java exploit attack onto unsuspecting users as they come in the website, and you … Read more
There is a great white paper at sans.org Elizabeth Stanton wrote it to highlight “Security through Quality Assurance Practices” I found it by doing a google search “quality computer security”. In my quest for trying to explain to non-security people why they need to pay more attention to computer security without blasting headlines … Read more