I’m often thinking where the next attack can come in and unfortunately it may come where we least expect it. Spiceworks blogpost has an interesting angle: How often have cloud services been installed by users without IT department knowledge? The survey by Spiceworks has found that many IT people have found their users installing cloud … Read more
Just for fun I wanted to make the headline to be “Make Software Secure Again” But when was software secure? Never, as we assumed it was secure but actually SW was never tested and security problems started as people hacked software and thus it was never secure we were just ignorant or naive in the … Read more
Compliance standards have similar goals (PCI – HIPAA – SOX – e-discovery) and the question is what should your password policy be to fulfill compliance and your own security risk profile. images from PCI standards doc, Adobe images site(HIPAA), Forbes (SOX), and aos.com (ediscovery) How many characters? Should there be special characters besides alphanumeric? Capital … Read more
Did you want to set up your own Intrusion Analysis department? Or at least give a framework for creating a method to understand a breach. Then read this document at threatconnect.com¹ by Sergio Caltagirone, Andrew Pendergast, and Christopher Betz. This document goes into the details of what the attacker/adversary can do to your infrastructure and … Read more
I’m always scouring the net for interesting presentations and this is an interesting one, from Bsides Detroit By Gordon MacKay¹ which have been put on the Net by Adrian Crenshaw (irongeek.com)² The presentation is about a flaw in vulnerability management systems which also happens to be what Gordon MacKay programs now for Digital Defense Inc. … Read more
