Am reading one of the articles from my Security Analyzed page at Network World http://www.networkworld.com/article/2309917/lan-wan/lan-wan-router-man.html William Yaeger created the multi protocol router from ireport.cnn.com: Christmas 1979 it happened. {Yeager goes on to describe how they used router technology as a connection from the Standford Medical School to the Department of Computer Science. He describes the … Read more
Here are some great articles that showed how some unsuspecting people get sucked into online scams: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/online-dating-made-woman-pawn-global-crime-plot/ Everyone has to learn how to defeat their own potential phishing attack… Are you interested in vision loss? or staying at a nice hotel for a weekend getaway? Or reducing your energy costs? You can see … Read more
http://blogs.cisco.com/security/synful-knock This is an attack that is successful only if you do not change default passwords on Cisco Routers. But… see below. In Mid September: { Today, Mandiant/FireEye published an article describing an example of this type of attack. This involved a router “implant” that they dubbed SYNful Knock, reported to have been found in 14 routers … Read more
Yes we(humans) are Risk seeking with losses, and risk averse with gains. https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2008/01/the_psychology_of_se.html “Security is a tradeoff,” Schneier said, speaking to a packed audience at his RSA session. “What are you getting for what you’re giving up? Whether you make that tradeoff consciously or not, there is one.” You think that your computers are not … Read more
Does this sound familiar? My company does what it can with security and is compliant, we have no breaches so far. The problem is that the security team knows we can get breached, in fact we likely already have. But fortunately nothing has been overtly accomplished (as far as we can tell) by the … Read more
