We need a Renaissance of focus on Security. I’m a Systems Engineer (http://www.fixvirus.com/about-us-full-story/) and teacher of Security Architecture (SEC020 at Professional Education Technology & Leadership Center at Washington university in Saint Louis) So of course like a dentist looking at teeth (they can’t help it) I look at computers from a systems point of view. Which … Read more
What about “PCI Compliance on Cloud?” There _is_ a document by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) SSC(Security Standards Council) website https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/PCI_DSS_v2_Cloud_Guidelines.pdf Notice this is a v2(Feb 2013) document of the DSS (Data Security Standard), and we know that the latest DSS document is v3 (Nov 2013), but we can figure out a few things … Read more
It seems everyone should be looking for Command and Control traffic from inside the network (updated on 04/01/2016) What does Command and Control mean? It is the last process in the hacking cycle: As we have pointed out: SVAPE & C Scan, Vulnerability Analysis, Penetrate Exploit & Control from other posts http://www.fixvirus.com/svapec/ Our … Read more
Here is the underlying Lenovo problem: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/529496 ” Komodia Redirector with SSL Digestor installs non-unique root CA certificates and private keys, making systems broadly vulnerable to HTTPS spoofing” And unfortunately this Komodia Redirector is inside a Lenovo software installation (Superfish) Here is a Techworld story: http://www.techworld.com/news/security/lenovo-not-alone-in-suffering-from-superfish-security-flaw-3598898/ which also discusses the problem both in Lenovo systems: “ Security researchers … Read more
That is the message companies have according to the Christian Science Monitor survey “Conventional wisdom” and results of the survey are at odds, there is an overall thinking that all companies are now paying attention to cybersecurity or information Security now that Anthem was hacked and the Sony hack occured. But the opposite is … Read more
