Website Files Ransomed – Not Just Personal Files
This image explains (from PCWorld Article) The Ransomware image that can occupy your computer if you had the misfortune of downloading the wrong item (malware – virus, etc). Or if…
I’ll Give You $1k To Use Your Username & PW Over The Holidays
SecTor presentation by Kristin Lovejoy at http://2015.video.sector.ca/video/144598380 There are several business disrupters: The Cloud is changing how software is developed and thus how security should look at the cloud Agile…
Torte Botnet Infected 83k WordPress Hosting Servers
It is an interesting document from the stateoftheinternet.com https://www.stateoftheinternet.com/downloads/pdfs/SpamBot-Investigation-whitepaper-R3.pdf This botnet had 83,000 unique infections (which include webservers running all operating systems) And on page 6 where the researchers revealed…
NTP Attack Can Cause Encryption and DNS Problems
Aanchal Malhotra, Isaac E. Cohen, Erik Brakke, and Sharon Goldberg wrote a paper (out of Boston University) http://www.cs.bu.edu/~goldbe/papers/NTPattack.pdf “Attacking the Networking Time Protocol” Apparently if your servers and clients (which…
DDOS Attack Allows Million$ Transferred To Mule
After seeing a good ISACA presentation today at the Renaissance in Saint Louis (near airport) http://www.isaca.org/chapters5/Saint-Louis/Pages/default.aspx by Josh Vander Veen with SpearTip Here are my notes: Sophistication of criminal attack…