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How Much $ & Time Focus on Security?

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2 Wired articles : http://www.wired.com/2015/07/senate-bill-seeks-standards-cars-defenses-hackers/ http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/ The articles discuss  how one industry is using the new Internet connected services and devices to give more functionality to their customers. That’s great right? So what did 2 researchers do 2011? they connected a laptop and controlled the car through the diagnostic connector. The auto industry laughed at … Read more

Why Security News Scrutinized to Nth Degree

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Why put such an emphasis on keeping up with the Security news?  When a new hack comes out it takes time to create the attacks and the defenses, that initial time from the vulnerability being introduced is the most important time you have.     Once the Vulnerability is introduced then there is a certain time … Read more

Time to Drop Flash? How about Java?

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There are many articles gleefully advancing when Mozilla and Chrome stopped Flash from running on Tuesday of this week.  (until the new vulnerability was patched) readwrite: http://readwrite.com/2015/07/15/firefox-mozilla-kill-adobe-flash there is even a movement against Flash now: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mozilla-blocks-flash-in-firefox,29583.html With an interesting militant image:   Why did this happen? Well the problem is that Flash is multi-platform and multi-browser … Read more

Criminal Vietnamese Caught Selling Identities – Patch Tuesday Has Critical Patches

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2 major stories of note today, first a Vietnamese http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/id-theft-service-proprietor-gets-13-years/   Obviously from the KrebsonSecurity website Screenshot as of July15 morning. Mr. Ngo had a ‘business’ that sold identity information to other entities for millions of dollars, with the full number of stolen identities unknown. At least 13673 US citizens had their identities stolen and had their … Read more

DDoS Attacked HotSchedules -Down For 45 Hrs

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http://www.darkreading.com/cloud/inside-a-vicious-ddos-attack/a/d-id/1321286 has the full story – it is worth your time for you to read it.   The technical overview by the CEO is the following (from article): { The assailants hit with 10- to 15 gigabytes per second (Gbps) of traffic – 250 times our standard rate. When I called my peers in banking and … Read more