What if you could block all China originating traffic? As you see there was a Forbes Internet attack survey done for Q2 2014. China was the top source of attack traffic (43% of global Internet attack traffic). Image reference Link: http://www.statista.com/chart/2801/china-is-the-worlds-top-source-of-internet-attack-traffic/ . What if you could just block all this traffic? How could you do it? It … Read more
Security Magazine has the story: http://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/86057-understanding-the-new-federal-cyber-laws The CEA(Cybersecurity Enhancement Act 2014) is the most significant of the December bills both in breadth and likely in significance. Where NIST(National Institute of Standards and Technology) has setup a Cybersecurity framework which is very flexible for companies to follow. NIST Feb 12,2014 Cybersecurity Framework document. The interesting paragraph … Read more
(Sunday reflections and current news) Specifically the Seagate NAS Business Storage Line Today’s Internet Storm Center has the story. This is the method the attackers can use to hack the devices(From ISC): “It appears to be trivial to exploit the devices and a metasploit module and an exploit are publicly available.” PII(Personally Identified Information) was bought … Read more
Yes another slightly new style of attack: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2889933/hackers-exploit-router-flaws-in-unusual-pharming-attack.html There are a couple of slightly new twists in this hacker style attack. Proofpoint found the attack (as a spam protection company they see all kinds of emails) https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/post/Phish-Pharm Here is definition of pharming: “Attackers use poisoned DNS servers to redirect address requests, usually for online banking … Read more
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