Unfortunately another flaw in software for which we expect to have _none_, at least in security software written in ZDNet¹ post: This just in 7/28/16 story by Cnet – http://www.cnet.com/news/big-security-bug-fixed-by-lastpass-password-manager/ Looks like Lastpass fixed another bug quickly… Tavis Ormandy (a Google Project Zero hacker) used a couple of tweets to point out security flaws in Lastpass LastPass is … Read more
Ok it happened as some predicted last year: A botnet was found¹ (a collection of computers or in this case devices that are controlled by another computer) controlling a number of IoT (Internet of Things). These IoT devices were then told to attack a website thus causing a DDoS (Dynamic Denial of Service). The website … Read more
Brian Krebs- KrebsonSecurity¹ has a story of Cici’s Pizza with a data breach on June 3rd . This credit Card breach story is interesting but not what I want to discuss. Instead let’s discuss “Todd”‘s response in the comments 1st response: So obviously Todd wrote this response as an immediate reflex action and does … Read more
What happens when an enterprising young person is in front of a computer too long? Oh yes one thing leads to another and WordPress is something to conquer. It does require patience and diligence. Every day somebody is finding new vulnerabilities in new and old software (this problem was uncovered by ‘speckz’ poster on reddit). … Read more
Why are there constant patches for security problems that are inside software? Why??? Why do we have New Security breaches? every year new ones are found and hackers find them to hack computers (which happen to have this breached software). At the end of last year (2015) everyone was being circumspect and reviewed what happened … Read more
