Let’s say you have not replaced your firewall or thought about it much for some time. Is it time to replace it? There are ‘new’ firewalls called Next Generation firewalls (NGFW for short) because we like our acronyms. First we have to assess risk and decide if this is a good usage of resources (maybe … Read more
The Wifi device that you have (either yourself or by someone else) are setup with: Decide on naming your device, and also decide on the encryption technology to set up the network(your Internet access). Of course you could decide not to encrypt but in that case you are screwed security wise. So let’s assume that … Read more
There is an interesting running discussion at reddit.com/netsec Started by Brian Krebs (the #2 site in Security News Analyzed) The question was ‘Why do you think organizations seem to prefer “learning these lessons the hard way”?’ And here is Brian’s answer { But in the end I think it comes down to a lack of … Read more
https://isc.sans.edu/ has a good post on how to do some rudimentary searches… Specifically https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Botnets+spreading+Dridex+still+active/20295/ is the post. The image above is the same image from isc.sans.edu today post, notice how Brad Duncan searched for the Dridex malware with the hash mark, so if there is a suspected malware you are interested in researching that is a great … Read more
When do Wifi attacks Succeed? It depends on your setup Some basics: First of all, change your default admin password (since default admin passwords are on the Internet so that users can manage their WiFi Access points). New access points may look like this: and the support page shows how to access the WiFi … Read more
