Discussion of public breaches of security
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
We have many adversarial relationships Spy vs Spy – cat and Mouse – blue & red team – hackers vs IT teams. What made me think of this? The post¹ on Reddit/netsec stating only 10 lines of code will bypass Antivirus code. In case you don’t know Virustotal.com allows attackers and defenders to check their code … Read more
What do I mean by “In Time” ? it means that at some point when a system has old code on it a new attack will have been developed by enterprising hackers both good and bad hackers. At that point your system is easily hacked, the more time you leave it unpatched the more likely … Read more
