2014 was the “Year of the Breach” they say with the usual credit card breaches: Home Depot, Target and more… The clincher was the ultimate attack with Sony corp that brought the network down completely. It was an unusual attack, since the attackers actually stole data and then deleted it. Thus the network became unusable. … Read more
Computerworld has the story: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2878741/hacker-hijacks-wireless-foscam-baby-monitor-talks-and-freaks-out-nanny.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#tk.rss_all We have posted about this before Jun11, 2014 http://oversitesentry.com/what-if-your-new-gadget-gets-hacked-even-your-countertop-or-toilet/ The creepy hacker said some words to the nanny and caused the nanny to turn off the webcam. There seems to be a sad theme here as well as our post(Nov16) of regular webcams (not just babycams) http://oversitesentry.com/change-default-passwords-online-cams/ It seems it … Read more
What does Dox mean? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dox defines dox as personal information about people on Internet, including real name, known aliases, address, phone number, SS#, cc#, etc. So if you think you can keep your data secret or at least not public (the old method was delist your name and address from phone book) today everyone leaves a trail … Read more
It’s good to do some reflection, and this is the last Saturday of he month, so here we are. Securosis’ Rich latest post https://securosis.com/blog/summary-heads-up has a decent summary post, which is discussing what to do periodically – review current technologies and methods and see if those methods can improve your current operational methods and … Read more
Where do we start? In the beginning … well, fortunately we do not have to talk creation or evolution, let’s just go back to early 90’s when the Microsoft Windows Operating system hit a large market share of all personal computing systems. If you look at the early Windows systems, they were not built out … Read more