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It is only a matter of time before health data will be plastered all over the Internet. A number of Blogs are discussing this very issue http://www.safelogic.com/exposing-the-risks-of-data-driven-healthcare/ is one.   Penetration testing for New England care solved some problems outside of security issues: http://www.coresecurity.com/content/penetration-testing-key-to-hipaa-compliance-for-care Penetration testing checks the boundaries of your computer systems. By using open source tools … Read more

When is it necessary?  when entering an important command into a critical system that affects thousands of users. Or when you have to review your network to make sure no holes are found. the attacks on your network are relentless: Bad hackers  will attack your network and own your machines.   Once they own your machines … Read more

On the Internet if you manage a website then you should update the system in such a manner so that it should not get hacked. If the machine gets hacked you may inadvertently attack other systems.  Hackers are looking for systems to control (owning or p0wned) How are you certain that your IT department is … Read more

My provider is taking care of my database security. The cloud affords many advantages, including not having to set up servers, maintain them. This is good, security must also be handled by the cloud provider.  Especially if this is a public cloud database. If your database is on a server and is being accessed by … Read more

Interesting to note tomorrow is 2 weeks from Patch Tuesday November 11th (2nd Tuesday of month) and 2 weeks from patch Tuesday in December (the 9th). So it is a perfect time for reflection – thus we review a discussion of the November 2014 patch Tuesday  in SecurityWeek. It means to give direction for companies that … Read more