Wall Street Journal has a very good detailed story of what happened during the hack. http://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-the-scenes-at-sony-as-hacking-crisis-unfolded-1419985719?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird (May have to have a subscription to see the whole article) Besides the improvisation of he employees and management it is obvious to me: 1. There was no Disaster Recovery plan. 2. The erased contents of their servers meant … Read more
Which hospital chain will get hacked? Or should we ask which one will have the foresight to invest in security and prevent the hack? Only a matter of time … With the confluence of mass scanning, criminal hackers, and now monetization of health records: Reuters story: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/24/us-cybersecurity-hospitals-idUSKCN0HJ21I20140924 “Security experts say cyber criminals are increasingly targeting the … Read more
I.e. 2014 review of the reviews: Start with a good one Securosis https://securosis.com/blog/summary-thats-a-wrap ” First, the news. This was the year of Target and Sony. Symantec finally breaking up. All sorts of wacky M&A. The year family members checked in for the first time in decades, after reading my quotes in articles with “celebrity nudes” in the … Read more
Somehow a plugin (or otherwise) allowed malware to be injected on this website: This is the message that popped up when I tried going to my website (www.oversitesentry.com for my blog) Also Google chrome did not allow to go to the website without a “do not go” to this website message. Obviously this is bad… … Read more
Just a few items occurred while you were with Christmas activities: Playstation and XBOX Live networks were down by a DDOS attack. (Distributed Denial of Service) attributed to Lizard Squad. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2014/12/25/xbox-live-playstation-network-hack/20895113/ Playstation is part of Sony Electronics. And its store was not loading as of 01:47EST 12/26/14 as you can see So there are … Read more
