Discussion of public breaches of security
The X-force Blog has a good post about Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud (#28 in Security analyzed page) http://securityintelligence.com/platform-as-a-service-paas-cloud-side-channel-attacks-part-ii/#.VZq8NflglmM The Platform as a Service is a certain kind of Cloud service. In some cloud services your data resides on machines dedicated for your company (IaaS) – Infrastructure as a Service. In PaaS … Read more
Sucuri Blog has an interesting blogpost on how a website got compromised and allowed unencrypted Credit Card numbers(only in one specific area and for a few seconds) to be stolen from the Magento Ecommerce platform for a period of time. Magento is an Ecommerce web system. It Looks like Magento also had a … Read more
Newsflash to all CEO’s when do you understand the problem of no mistakes no matter the potential of attack? Bruce Schneier https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/hacking_drug_pu.html Hospira Infusion drug pumps: http://www.hospira.com/en/products_and_services/infusion_pumps/ So the infusion pump helps reduce clinical safety and is now on the network. Guess what will happen next? Hackers will hack… Sure it may take some time … Read more
Cross Application Resource Access = XARA is another way to hack applications on a computer, it was researched with the following paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxxXk1d3yyuZOFlsdkNMSGswSGs/view The Mac OSX and iOS operating systems were tested in the research paper by the 6 researchers: Luyi Xing, Xiaolong Bai, tongxin Li, XiaoFeng Wang, Kai Chen, and Xiaojing Liao In fact … Read more
Criminal tattoos – these are the guys attacking us. The Criminals have multitude of tools at their disposal, just like anybody with technical aptitude does. And just like water flows and creates new channels as it runs downhill the hacker will find your weakness. Because the Hacker Economy is now in the hundreds of millions … Read more