New Credit Cards(EMV) Hacked in France
EMV(Europay, MasterCard, Visa) is the standard with the pin and chip technology which the US has finally moved to on October 1st of this year. Since EMV history and about…
October2015 Patch Tuesday: Including Windows Shell Vulnerability
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-oct.aspx Has several patches including MS15-106 ” One memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2015-6056) has been publicly disclosed.” from the following link: https://msisac.cisecurity.org/advisories/2015/2015-121.cfm As far as Microsoft patches go – the ones…
Network Security Has Fundamental Problems
A breach has many looks… THE fundamental problem is highlighted in this article: http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/15mn-affected-medical-information/ Besides the obvious headline grabber “1.5mil records stolen by hackers.” I am going to compile a…
One Cyber Mistake Causes Problem$
All it takes is one patch is missed, One computer not taken care of. Computers must be patched so that Zero-day exploits have minimal affects. We discussed this on July…
State-of-the-Art Security: Obscure your Network
Richard Bejtlich has a new post (as of May 10) http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/ He set out a few excerpts of a 1978 book “Computer Capers” by Thomas Whiteside. To me the most…