Merry Christmas – Happy Holidays
and of course: Santa Claus is updating how he gets all gifts to all of us … Examiner.com has 10 new ways Santa is getting around.
computersecuritynews
Healthcare Should Protect Data? $%&* YES!!
My apologies for the obvious headline – or what should be obvious to all… Why is this so difficult? There seems to be a large number of cyber losses in the last 2 years in healthcare¹ and this data is from Health and Human Services originally. The Future of health care and Electronic … Read more
Society Wants Technology – Does Not Realize Security Implications
Everyone heralds new improvements ever since the Renaissance in the 15th century started an artistic and scientific improvement binge every year. We are moving to another new year since time does not stand still for us to digest the current technology. Johannes Gutenberg small bio at physic.org So in 1440 we were inadvertently thrust … Read more
Zero-Day Attacks And Why Patching Means Catching Up
Another day another Zero-Day Attack: From Sucuri Blog¹ which found a remote Code Execution attack on Joomla a CMS(Content Management System) software The hackers are interested in these all the time: Because a Zero-day attack means that an attack on susceptible software can be easily taken over. Zero day exploits are sought after in the darknet. … Read more
NextGen Firewall Flaw Uncovered
The recently added BugSec blog¹ on Security News Analyzed page at #30 is the source. Apparently there are several NGFW (Next generation FireWalls) systems that allow the initial handshake to occur no matter the destination, including to destinations we would want to deny. It is good to point out, that an actual connection is not … Read more