2016 Has Arrived – the First of Many Shoes to be dropped unfortunately. My apologies for the sensationalist story… Wired magazine Story¹ Los Angeles Hospital Presbytarian Medical center computers have not worked for a week – being ransomed for $3.4Mil in bitcoin and “only then” will get back in business. Even now the CEO Allen … Read more
Carefirst Breach(1) May- 1.1 mil members Hackers gained access to names, birthdates email, and subscriber info, passwords Anthem – Premera Blue Cross(2) January – 80 mil patients – personal information taken (all) Harvard university and other universities (3) – 28 known education breaches totalling 1 million compromised records. likely all personal information – passwords etc. … Read more
Rob Alexander is CIO of Capital One and was very proud of his move to AWS http://t.co/ix9TamNPAW here is one of his slides touting the his efforts. “We can provide higher security with AWS than with our own data centers” They are developing new mobile and web apps to connect to your bank account “Mobile … Read more
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 https://www.emvco.com/about_emv.aspx So it is good that we have gotten up to speed from our days of just mag stripe and pin number. But since the standard has … Read more
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 that patch remote code execution in the vulnerability impact column. And 4 of the 6 have remote code execution. As a systems person I … Read more