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…
Internet Explorer is Most Vulnerable Browser
The Internet Storm Center has a great article on the most common vulnerabilities in web applications (XSS or Cross Site Scripting) https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/When+encoding+saves+the+day/20277/ This is where some data is attempted insertion…
Expirian Board of Directors: Growth Through Acquisition – But Without Security Testing
David Krebs story: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/at-experian-security-attrition-amid-acquisitions/ I want to focus on Board of Directors decisions to grow through acquisition, wanting to do growth securely, but in practice has lots of problems. The…
Dangerous Vulnerability? Some Routers Bad UPnP Authentication
This is the problem with some security issues(complicated technical issues that require expertise to fix): http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/361684 Home routers implementing the UPnP protocol do not sufficiently randomize UUIDs in UPnP control…
Cloud Computers Can Be Attacked
Of the 7 black hat white papers I want to focus on the ones that can cause problems for the Cloud Computers. The above diagram is a general diagram of…