Defend Your Systems
Brian Krebs does a great job reviewing the details at his latest post http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/09/inside-target-corp-days-after-2013-breach/#more-32276 The analysis of Target’s breach is obvious in the level of insecurity in Target 2012. Default…
The latest story from Arstechnica: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/ftc-can-sue-companies-with-poor-information-security-appeals-court-says/ Builds on the previous post: http://oversitesentry.com/courts-uphold-ftc-regulation-punishment-to-negligent-company/ Higher regulation –> higher lawsuit fees –> More costs to a breach. Wyndham had ineffective Cybersecurity and FTC…
To anyone that pays attention Chinese hackers steal IP (Intellectual Property Theft) http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chinas-ip-theft-tech-transfer/ We can argue – is it $5trillion? or 3? My point is it does not matter, the…
The “Spy patches” from Microsoft should be uninstalled from your environment. One reason is the constant network bandwidth to Microsoft servers they generate. Second, they are not a “security” patch,…
New Cisco attacks on the IOS operating system (a Cisco operating system). http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=40411 There are actually no product vulnerabilities, but just plain old administrative access problems. What happens if someone…