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
In JPMorgan’s shareholder letter states on page 22. Ja,oe Dimon is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer By the end of 2014, we will have spent more than $250 million annually with approximately 1,000 people focused on the effort. This effort will continue to grow exponentially over the years. In our existing environment and at our company, … Read more
Microsoft says MS14-045 some KB updates should be uninstalled due to crashes. ZDnet also describes an apparent flaw in KB2993651 Two of these (2970228 and 2975719) are among the updates withdrawn by Microsoft along with MS14-045. A reboot must be done after the Updates is uninstalled in the ‘Program and features’, installed updates section. So … Read more
Wired story of “Project Zero” Although initially the story is a nice feel good story of hiring George Holtz after he hacks the AT&T iPhone lock and reverse engineering the Playstation 3. This is a small window into the life of a hacker – where one can figure out the software security cracks and … Read more