Your Cyberdefense Still 2000’s Thinking?

Yes it is February 20, 2015 And it is high time you replaced your firewall(FW), just like all computers the new firewalls have better processors and chips to make your speed in Internet browsing faster and if you get a Next Gen FW(NGFW) you can also be more secure.   So as technology gets better, … Read more

Hiring a Hacker for Evil

It seems it is not so hard to hire a hacker for evil. Several articles discuss the how and why: http://bgr.com/2015/01/16/how-to-hire-a-hacker/ There is even a website that apparently  had so much traffic that it bogged down with traffic. NakedSecurity  article: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/19/hackers-for-hire-hackers-list-for-those-with-no-ethics-or-espionage-skills/ Notice how much traffic some evil is creating, and it is the little “projects” … Read more

Cyberattacks too difficult – I give up

Massive cyberattacks, difficult configurations? what to do from here? All I have is some unusable data to the hackers – what is important about our stuff.   We are inundated with cyberattacks in the news and more terrorist attacks (beheadings, shootings, death etc.) We have to have intent of protecting our assets to the best of … Read more

Why #cybersecurity breaches? Insanity is cause

Is there something fundamentally wrong with our thinking? Anthem is only the latest victim of the multiple victims last year. Over 1 Billion records were breached or stolen in 2014 and human error or accidents are  the cause 25% of the time (Network World story). “Mega breaches are the defining trend, exposing tens of millions … Read more

Hackers Are Coming! What Will You Do?

At the hackers were there for several weeks(maybe months)- copying and taking data before they started deleting data, and breaking stuff. Every day more malware (malicious software) is being created which is very hard to detect – why do you think Symantec says that anti virus is dead, the defenses of a network must contain more … Read more