DARKNET- Know it – Learn it
also called the “Deepweb” Guess what the IRS was hacked, which actually means we were hacked. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/report-irs-admits-its-been-hacked-tax-info-stolen-for-100000-plus/ In the thousands of breaches all over the world, the criminals are building…
How-Why Hackers Do What They Do?
After a long Weekend I wonder if there is a good enough understanding of how(and why) hackers do what they do – i.e. What makes a hacker want to take…
Memorial Day 2015 Thoughts
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118014402282815483 An excellent tribute and a very good expanation in 2007 Memorial Day and today 8 years later: Once we knew who and what to honor on Memorial Day: those…
Are We Falling Behind on Patching Computers?
I.e. Bruce Schneier quote: Can we patch vulnerabilities faster than attackers can exploit them? The University of maryland, College park has a website project: https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~tdumitra/blog/2015/04/15/impact-of-shared-code-on-vulnerability-patching/ In my opinion the crux…
Another Major Security Flaw (Website Encryption Technology) Called Logjam
A new report came out https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf The group of researchers created a website to explain their findings: The Logjam Attack (https://weakdh.org) It looks like they also did a scan of…