Federal Government Needs a Digital “Smokey the Bear”
The conclusion of The July 2014 Insurance Industry Working Session: from the USDA.gov page Ok, I admit the conference did not talk about Smokey the Bear for cyberspace very much…
FireEye new report -APT28 coming from Russian government
FireEye report and what is in it: This report says what we knew – a major attack vector is coming from Russia. Russia is attacking us and others (East European…
Staples now investigating breach
Brian Krebs broke the story again, since he reviews the bank fraud channels, as well as the crook channels in Russia and elsewhere at times. Tripwire has a good video…
False Positives Bane of ITSecurity
Internet Storm Center discusses the month of CSAM false positives: ” The HUGE problem with this is false positives and false negatives.” Fortinet Blog post discusses the pressure on IT…
Anti-Malware diligence or Cryptowall 2.0 file destruction
A customer handed me a computer that was infected with Cryptowall 2.0 With this message: I cleaned the computer of the virus portion of the problem, but unfortunately as on…