Hospitals next hacking target?

MIT Technology Review  http://www.technologyreview.com/news/533631/2015-could-be-the-year-of-the-hospital-hack/ Claims hospitals are next on list to get hacked. I don’t think that is right… everyone will get hacked – it is easy to hack as many systems that are online. It is only a matter of time. So the mantra of 2015 will be EVERYONE will get hacked. test now … Read more

JP Morgan Chase hack news

It looks like the reason for the hack of JPMorgan is a basic hack. The routine check caught it, but did not find the problem in the first place. $250mil  spent on cyber security but did not complete the actual update on one machine. Arstechnica   says there was a missing two-factor authentication configuration on their … Read more

Is risk management working for us?

As we are devising new strategies and techniques so our businesses are not in the news, our business is not worth the time of the hackers etc. I want to ask the question is risk management as a methodology really serving us well? Sure we justify and enumerate how much money to spend on security … Read more

What would it take for a more secure world?

Have you had an inkling that cyber security is getting worse?   remember this post from Black Hat2014 where I posted about a dilemma of management?  It is as if this problem is so pervasive we can’t do anything about this. There seem to be more cyber breaches not less, we now expect to get hacked. … Read more