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
Here is a picture of a lock, since everyone has one (the above is a picture of a hotel lock). We don’t buy a house with a Door that has no lock. The lock cost is not high compared to the other items in the house, including land, wood structure, electric lines, and more. … Read more
All companies on the Internet have a firewall, even an older filtering firewall. here is a simplistic diagram of Internet – Modem – Firewall – Local Switch – Computers on network. Do you know what your firewall looks like from the Internet? When a hacker looks at your network how does your firewall actually … Read more
If you are not in the IT field who would understand all the details of a potential hack-attack, here are some headlines in news today that may not create a full picture: http://www.darkreading.com/perimeter/ddos-attackers-exploiting-80s-era-routing-protocol/d/d-id/1321138? Which means the old RIPv1 or Routing Information Protocol has abilities that can be exploited. If you have an old router, or … Read more
As I was going through the Top 100Cyber Security blogs one post stood out to me: http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/29/technology/credit-card-machine-hack/ Apparently 90% of all credit card machines have the default password , which happens to be: 166816 and Z66816 since 1990. So there are several problems here: 1. The same default password for many years by the manufacturers … Read more
