computersecuritynews

New fixvirus Post at http://www.fixvirus.com/why-perform-your-own-vulnerability-analysis/  

There is a new POODLE vulnerability and test at Qualys SSL labs) https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/   POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy) The problem is that your encryption stream may be downgraded to a legacy (i.e. can be cracked) standard.  TLS 1.2 and higher needs to be kept as the known secure standard. Go click on ssllabs.com … Read more

Wall Street Journal  article   Ever since the odd Press release from north Korea which clearly meant that they were not very happy with the new movie about 2 US spies attempting an assassination of the North Korean leader. FireEye seems to think so ABC news story they have an interesting threat map: https://www.fireeye.com/cyber-map/threat-map.html FBI … Read more

Actually I went to Eleven… My top 11 list on twitter:   1. Hacker News Network 2. Techmeme 3. Open Source Way 4. Dr. Phil-haxr !quaxr   @ppolstra 5. Praxiom Research 6. eGuard.me Phone and tablet security news 7. Wired 8. David Hoelzer (SANS IT audit) 9. Command Line Magic  10. Hackread – Security is a Myth 11.  The Hackers Blog You can check … Read more

go to http://google.security.com Threatpost has a good post  of the Security devices and Activities  link   https://www.google.com/settings/security The most important part is reviewing your Google activity periodically and to reduce any app permissions if you no longer use them.   Also for administrators the secureaccount link:  https://security.google.com/settings/security/secureaccount The review of online activity is a good aspect … Read more