The Number 1 reason is: “We do not do an adequate job of patching and paying attention to security!” Again and again we can find reports and stories of entities not doing basic tasks: Above image is from Protiviti report Why are the basics not being done? Because a concerted effort to manage IT … Read more
Kalo Mina = Have a good month in Greek. So remember to do some major backups on Holidays (always good to at least do 2 major backups per year. I like to do them on holidays like the 4th of July and Christmas for example. So before watching the fireworks and more – do a … Read more
There are quite a few Google projects of which some are focused on security(there are many more projects, but these are the ones that could be cybersecurity. The explanation which is in italics- i.e. copied from theGoogle project webpages): https://opensource.google.com/projects/ Abseil Abseil an open-source collection of library code. also at https://abseil.io/ Abseil C++ code … Read more
Thotcon (Chicago’s Hacking Conference) thoughts… Saw several good Cybersecurity presentations while one of the keynotes “Josh Corman” discussed the burnout of the infosec opsec community. This is a problem for our industry as I have discussed before in past posts. It has to do with the 3 following topics: 1. Workload to most infosec people … Read more
In the spirit of a lighter fare this Sunday. Watching Anon (again) it is an interesting futuristic movie where there is a video recording of everything. Apparently everyone has a recording method and Clive Owen the actor, playing Sal Frieland is an investigator that needs to find a murderer. Apparently there is a hacker that … Read more
