Discussion of public breaches of security
I have explained some of the description and history of a hacker on Fixvirus.com post¹: I want to refocus on the 3 types of hackers: White, Gray, and Black hat. The White hat hacker is the good guy, the black hat is the bad evil guy, and the grey hat does both good and bad. This … Read more
What does this Headline mean to you? From the Talos Intelligence website¹. The text may be a bit hard to read, so here it is: Intel HD Graphics Windows Kernel Driver (igdkmd64) Code Execution Vulnerability Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5647 Summary: A vulnerability exists in the communication functionality of Intel Graphics Kernel Mode Driver. A specially crafted message can cause … Read more
Ok it happened as some predicted last year: A botnet was found¹ (a collection of computers or in this case devices that are controlled by another computer) controlling a number of IoT (Internet of Things). These IoT devices were then told to attack a website thus causing a DDoS (Dynamic Denial of Service). The website … Read more
There is a problem from the board rooms to the Human Resource departments¹ and more. In the nextgov article it a survey shows that Human resource departments rank cybersecurity as “unimportant” or “very unimportant” So what does a Cybersecurity professional do? Tuck tail and run? Mope i.e. be depressed? No we must educate. We must … Read more
What can we use that is good for us that is not being done today? Remember that the hacker is designing new threats every day trying to reverse engineer the technology you are using and trying to attack and defeat your defenses with these new methods. So why am i bringing up a Higgins … Read more
