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
Internet Storm Center has a post today noting the update to Burp Suite an excellent vulnerability analysis of Websites as a proxy server. While checking the update the storm center noted the inclusion of NoSQL injection in the update. At the same time why is this important? because of the prevalence of public databases or “Bigdata” … Read more
Interesting Defcon17 (an attorney gave a talk in this video): This Defcon presentation is all about Constitutional rights on your computers. Also the following webpage at Cnet.com When one thinks someone want to read their laptop content, and then encrypt the data, that may not be enough to prevent the government whose border … Read more
As time goes on your risk assessment needs to be re-evaluated, especially as computer resources change. If we had a crystal ball what would the future bring? It is lucky there are smart people thinking about this very issue. In the following Youtube video about a discussion with Dr. Mchio Kaku at St. Petersburg … Read more