Newsflash: The Internet is Not Secure
Am reading one of the articles from my Security Analyzed page at Network World http://www.networkworld.com/article/2309917/lan-wan/lan-wan-router-man.html William Yaeger created the multi protocol router from ireport.cnn.com: Christmas 1979 it happened. {Yeager goes…
October2015 Patch Tuesday: Including Windows Shell Vulnerability
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-oct.aspx Has several patches including MS15-106 ” One memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2015-6056) has been publicly disclosed.” from the following link: https://msisac.cisecurity.org/advisories/2015/2015-121.cfm As far as Microsoft patches go – the ones…
Expirian Board of Directors: Growth Through Acquisition – But Without Security Testing
David Krebs story: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/at-experian-security-attrition-amid-acquisitions/ I want to focus on Board of Directors decisions to grow through acquisition, wanting to do growth securely, but in practice has lots of problems. The…
Hackers Wiped Out Casino Computers 10min
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/iranian-hackers-used-visual-basic-malware-to-wipe-vegas-casinos-network/ A very interesting story of Iranian hackers (whether government sponsored or sanctioned does not matter) attacked and deleted a lot of files using Visual Basic. (I know from 2014…
Defeat Phishing: Train Emotional Detachment to Scams
Here are some great articles that showed how some unsuspecting people get sucked into online scams: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/online-dating-made-woman-pawn-global-crime-plot/ Everyone has to learn how to defeat their own potential phishing attack… Are…