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Internet Storm Center has some more discussion The bottom line is Symantec has said its software products can only catch 50% or so of the viruses out there. PCMag says so what: http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/security/323419-symantec-says-antivirus-is-dead-world-rolls-eyes The comments gave a couple of good links(which I captured a couple of images from): http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparatives-reviews/ http://www.av-test.org/en/news/ So one can test the Anti-Virus … Read more

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1574308430/computer-security-simplified I am putting a book together to explain some computer security basics I have found along the way of a 20 year career in IT. Password policy, Two-Factor-Authentication, Clickjacking/phishing, Wifi setup,Virus and malware fixes.   Radio show went well this morning at KXEN…  http://www.businessinsideandout.com/ As soon as I get the content (mp3 file) will … Read more

KrebsonSecurity has the latest info on the latest attacks on HomeDepot And this image was pointed to by the malware code which means it is not only a financial attack on HomeDepot, but it is also a political attack. Here are Brian Kreb’s words themselves: “In the wake of the Target breach, I traced a … Read more

DARKReading This was during the DEFCON 22 event in Las Vegas (the Social Engineering Capture the Flag event) “The social engineering competition held last month in Las Vegas was in no way directly related to a report yesterday that Home Depot may have suffered a massive data breach; the home improvement chain was still investigating … Read more

KrebsonSecurity has some info There is no information on Home Depot website on the breach, although there are a lot of jobs open and unfilled from Aug 20, as well as some new ones in the security engineering positions. —————————————————————————– Update on this issue – Late night 9/3 http://news.yahoo.com/almost-u-home-depot-stores-may-hit-breach-214825497–sector.html yahoo story (from Reuters) it is … Read more