Discussion of public breaches of security
Which hospital chain will get hacked? Or should we ask which one will have the foresight to invest in security and prevent the hack? Only a matter of time … With the confluence of mass scanning, criminal hackers, and now monetization of health records: Reuters story: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/24/us-cybersecurity-hospitals-idUSKCN0HJ21I20140924 “Security experts say cyber criminals are increasingly targeting the … Read more
Somehow a plugin (or otherwise) allowed malware to be injected on this website: This is the message that popped up when I tried going to my website (www.oversitesentry.com for my blog) Also Google chrome did not allow to go to the website without a “do not go” to this website message. Obviously this is bad… … Read more
Fixvirus show December 23rd. cyberattackers are emboldened. the real story of the last few days. Get ready for the new year.
As we are devising new strategies and techniques so our businesses are not in the news, our business is not worth the time of the hackers etc. I want to ask the question is risk management as a methodology really serving us well? Sure we justify and enumerate how much money to spend on security … Read more
Honeywell Point Of Sale(POS) systems – like the Dolphin Scanners: The components of Honeywell’s software (OLE for Retail POS systems to be exact) seem to be susceptible to buffer overflow attacks. Threatpost blogpost Relevant paragraph: “The Honeywell OPOS Suite provides a standard programming interface that allows POS hardware to be easily integrated into retail POS … Read more