Which hospital chain will get hacked? Or should we ask which one will have the foresight to invest in security and prevent the hack? Only a matter of time … With the confluence of mass scanning, criminal hackers, and now monetization of health records: Reuters story: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/24/us-cybersecurity-hospitals-idUSKCN0HJ21I20140924 “Security experts say cyber criminals are increasingly targeting the … Read more
I.e. 2014 review of the reviews: Start with a good one Securosis https://securosis.com/blog/summary-thats-a-wrap ” First, the news. This was the year of Target and Sony. Symantec finally breaking up. All sorts of wacky M&A. The year family members checked in for the first time in decades, after reading my quotes in articles with “celebrity nudes” in the … Read more
Somehow a plugin (or otherwise) allowed malware to be injected on this website: This is the message that popped up when I tried going to my website (www.oversitesentry.com for my blog) Also Google chrome did not allow to go to the website without a “do not go” to this website message. Obviously this is bad… … Read more
Just a few items occurred while you were with Christmas activities: Playstation and XBOX Live networks were down by a DDOS attack. (Distributed Denial of Service) attributed to Lizard Squad. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2014/12/25/xbox-live-playstation-network-hack/20895113/ Playstation is part of Sony Electronics. And its store was not loading as of 01:47EST 12/26/14 as you can see So there are … Read more
Merry Christmas to all and do the right thing: Philotimo the Greek virtue of “do the right thing” i.e. test your systems, protect your network, spend the time and resources. Philotimo is considered to be the highest of all Greek virtues which determines and regulates how someone should behave in their family and social groups. … Read more
