Is Your “Cloud” Safe From Cross-Tenant Side-Channel Attacks?
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…
IT Security is a Mindset
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…
Test Your Firewall – Have You Firewalked?
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…
We Depend On IT Competence & Reliability
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…
90% CC Machines Have Default Password
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…