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
I know the gipper had the famous saying: But that is only for the soviet union arms control in the 1980’s. In the 1990’s and early 2000’s we have the following: “Trust but verify” and always back up your work. But I think it is not enough in the 2010’s specifically March 10th, 2016. Now … Read more
As KrebsonSecurity noticed yesterday with his post¹. Credit Unions are seeing fraudulent transaction on Debit cards that were used at Wendy’s I created this image from Engadget’s² image of a drive-thru sign at a Wendy’s So the next time you drive thru Wendy’s (until they fix it) imagine a hacker actually also receiving your debit card … Read more