We know EMV should be installed in your credit card acceptance machines by October of 2015 (so already 9 months past) as per PCI compliance standard. The New Pin and Chip cards are also called EMV cards (Europay Mastercard and Visa). Pin and Chip logo above is from UK site http://www.chipandpin.co.uk/ – and it looks good. Above … Read more
Happy 4th of July weekend!!! In Greece on the first of every month we say Kalo Mina = have a good month. Since this is the first day of the 3rd quarter and before a long weekend.. In cybersecurity the hackers do not sleep and in fact holiday weekends are looked at for … Read more
Ok it happened as some predicted last year: A botnet was found¹ (a collection of computers or in this case devices that are controlled by another computer) controlling a number of IoT (Internet of Things). These IoT devices were then told to attack a website thus causing a DDoS (Dynamic Denial of Service). The website … Read more
Why does it seem that we are always defending? Seemingly the same thing every day – every month, as the patches come out IT departments must patch consistently and without fail. Because if not what happens? Such as from Fortinet’s¹ analysis 10% of all NFS servers in the world are vulnerable to a specific attack. … Read more
Security and thus also Cybersecurity needs to be thought of in a different manner. Education about information security has to be put together well. We have to understand the whole environment and people need to follow what corporate recommends for security reasons. Why? because individuals should not create corporate blindspots either knowing or unknowing. (image … Read more
