Discussion of public breaches of security
From WSJ article On May 7th hackers were able to shut down a number of city of Baltimore computers. They demanded $100k worth of bitcoins to release their stranglehold. On this day that is about 13 Bitcoins (value of Bitcoins fluctuates). So Baltimore is refusing to pay as they should. The ransomware the hackers used … Read more
If there is no way to fix a vulnerability what do you do if you have a camera with a vulnerability? Here is the quote on Threatpost (from the engineer that found the flaw): “Over 2 million vulnerable devices have been identified on the internet, including those distributed by HiChip, TENVIS, SV3C, VStarcam, Wanscam, NEO … Read more
Area41 Defconswitzerland had an interesting video about attacking Single Sign-on technology SAML – Security Assertion Markup Language (basic tutorial on SAML) There are a few ways an attack can happen, while the initial connections are made (and all certificate info is exchanged or other info needed. Or after the initial connection was made and now the … Read more
Let’s set this up… You have paid attention to some Cyber security efforts, and have a number of defenses, maybe not “all of them” but your risk management matrix has shown you where to focus. What is impact on a device if having Cyber security problems? Assuming you set up the probability matrix of all … Read more
Good YouTube video: “Rise of the Miners Josh Grunzweig” Ransomware is no longer a viable method of making money for the criminals, since Bitcoin is worth a lot of money, and it would be difficult to get people to pay for their ransomed computers. So the Criminals have moved to Cryptomining. The cryptominers have infected … Read more
