No Anonymity on Internet

If it is not plain to everyone, here is some evidence: Sony Picture’s Scott Rudin exec emails: http://deadline.com/2014/12/scott-rudin-apology-sony-hacking-barack-obama-1201320321/ His racially insensitive emails were posted after the network and all servers were hacked. even after several years go by the emails have surfaced.    SEP = Security Equals Privacy This scenario can be repeated: Google and Twitter … Read more

Test new POODLE vulnerability

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

Now North Korea may be behind Sony Pictures hack

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

Top Ten Twitter list

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