Discussion of public breaches of security
The Internet Storm Center has a post about how to get information from computers on the Internet. So you want to use the Internet? If you want to use it, you have to be connected. If you are connected you can be scanned. Hackers will scan you until they find a vulnerability. There are … Read more
etutorials.org explains some Heap Overflow attacks This is an important sentence and diagram( from the etutorials.org: “Where the details of stack overflow exploitation rely on the specifics of hardware architecture, heap overflows are reliant on the way certain operating systems and libraries manage heap memory. Here I restrict the discussion of heap overflows to … Read more
The 23rd USENIX Security conference 8/20 – 8/22 2014 discussed many subjects There is a specific paper about “An Internet-Wide View of Internet-Wide Scanning” by Zakir Durumeric University of Michigan zakir@umich.edu, Michael Bailey University of Michigan mibailey@umich.edu and, J. Alex Halderman University of Michigan jhalderm@umich.edu So that you do not have to fish the 13 pages out of the 1000 page main document … Read more
In the realm of incidence reporting and response Management: CERT has a process to use. One has to have a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) A security incident occurs when unwanted scans and attacks are happening. Breaking a security policy is also a security incident. Of course breaking into a server and stealing data … Read more
In 2011 Cisco put out a report there are 12.5 Billion devices connected to the Internet and since we have 6.8 Billion people there are more devices than people (tablets, smartphones etc). In fact according to this Cisco report the year 2008 is when the number of connected items (or Internet of things) exceeded the number … Read more
