Torte Botnet Infected 83k WordPress Hosting Servers
It is an interesting document from the stateoftheinternet.com https://www.stateoftheinternet.com/downloads/pdfs/SpamBot-Investigation-whitepaper-R3.pdf This botnet had 83,000 unique infections (which include webservers running all operating systems) And on page 6 where the researchers revealed…
Cyberjoke Friday Halloween edition
Kind of a Halloween mask/virus vs retrovirus angle from TecheBlog http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/18-funny-and-creative-geek-jokes. And even a Halloween-cloud computing angle also from Pinterest and obviously CloudTweaks.com I found a Halloween joke at https://karthiksankar.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/programming-jokes/…
New Credit Cards(EMV) Hacked in France
EMV(Europay, MasterCard, Visa) is the standard with the pin and chip technology which the US has finally moved to on October 1st of this year. Since EMV history and about…
Hybrid Clouds Not Secure?
Rich Mogull at Scurosis Blog (#13 at http://oversitesentry.com/security-news-reviewed/) has the latest post https://securosis.com/blog/hybrid-clouds-an-ugly-reality The problem? A Hybrid cloud is by definition part cloud and part local systems. One can easily…
What is Primary Security Problem?
There is an interesting running discussion at reddit.com/netsec Started by Brian Krebs (the #2 site in Security News Analyzed) The question was ‘Why do you think organizations seem to prefer…