Arstechnica has the story Browsers are generally designed to prevent a script from one site from being able to access content from another site. They do this by enforcing what is called the Same Origin Policy (SOP): scripts can only read or modify resources (such as the elements of a webpage) that come from the … Read more
Taosecurity has an interesting post. Is your network a jumble of wires andnetwork equipment but not yet ordered? Hiring a 19 year old hacker without an Associates degree and some hacking knowledge does not make a secure corporate environment. The ststaement by blogger Richard Bejtlich “Young has repeatedly assigned Brewer to hack into Butler’s computer system. … Read more
The computer said the following (Image below) The customer did not actually give out money, but the person on the phone was very cryptic, yet was saying your computer is bad, you have to return it etc. (Customer just bought computer-2 months ago) It says www.repair-warnings.com/computerHelp.html Please do not go to this site, as it … Read more
Krebsonsecurity has the story again. C&K Systems performs a portion of Credit card and Debit card transaction processing. The most disturbing aspect of this breach knowledge is that they did not learn anything for 18 months. The problem with the head in the sand – no problems in my backyard method of management is eventually … Read more
Internet Storm Center has some more discussion The bottom line is Symantec has said its software products can only catch 50% or so of the viruses out there. PCMag says so what: http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/security/323419-symantec-says-antivirus-is-dead-world-rolls-eyes The comments gave a couple of good links(which I captured a couple of images from): http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparatives-reviews/ http://www.av-test.org/en/news/ So one can test the Anti-Virus … Read more
