Did you Have Anthem Health Insurance? Did you shop at Home Depot? Kmart? Or all the other retailers that were hacked? Did you work on a government project? Then you were affected by the Chinese espionage hack of the OPM (Office Personnel Management) So the “Hackers” have my personal info, … Read more
Newsflash to all CEO’s when do you understand the problem of no mistakes no matter the potential of attack? Bruce Schneier https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/hacking_drug_pu.html Hospira Infusion drug pumps: http://www.hospira.com/en/products_and_services/infusion_pumps/ So the infusion pump helps reduce clinical safety and is now on the network. Guess what will happen next? Hackers will hack… Sure it may take some time … Read more
Cross Application Resource Access = XARA is another way to hack applications on a computer, it was researched with the following paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxxXk1d3yyuZOFlsdkNMSGswSGs/view The Mac OSX and iOS operating systems were tested in the research paper by the 6 researchers: Luyi Xing, Xiaolong Bai, tongxin Li, XiaoFeng Wang, Kai Chen, and Xiaojing Liao In fact … Read more
In the security field we seem to be going over the same ground over and over. The reason for this is that security should be easy and an afterthought, but when it is treated that way problems come up sooner or later… I did not lead with the Cardinals versus Astros story, but the story … Read more
At last weeks Showmecon Kenn White spoke about the project he is auditing OpenSSL. the following is from the webpage https://opencryptoaudit.org/people When I first walked in to listen to his speech at the show, I was not paying attention, as the topic seemed to be about how some basic hacks were occuring. Including the ones … Read more
