Mac malware 356k apps infected

Palo Alto Networks has found a Mac malware targeting the OS and iOS systems. It is only thte second known malware family. It is the first known malware to automate generation of malicious iOS apps. It is the first to install in-the-wild malware on non-jail-broken iOS devices through enterprise And the following is the most … Read more

Encrypting Laptop Files: Legal effects

Interesting Defcon17 (an attorney gave a talk in this video): This Defcon presentation is all about Constitutional rights on your computers.   Also the following webpage  at Cnet.com   When one thinks someone want to read their laptop content, and then encrypt the data, that may not be enough to prevent the government whose border … Read more

Drupal vulnerability has new POC

New Proof of Concept for the 2 week old Drupal vulnerability The Drupal Security team says that you should assume every Drupal website not patched on October 15th was infected. A SQL injection attack went around the Internet in an automated fashion. And the details are: In this code we see, that Drupal gives the … Read more

Federal Government Needs a Digital “Smokey the Bear”

The conclusion of  The July 2014 Insurance Industry Working Session:   from the USDA.gov page Ok, I admit  the conference did not talk about Smokey the Bear for cyberspace  very much if at all. Specifically: “The Federal government may be in the best position to drive awareness and education about cyber risk and, by extension, … Read more

Bash Shellcode test site made

this is interesting: https://shellshocker.net/ Is an interesting site…  You can enter your domain name and they will tell you if you have the Bash Shellcode vulnerability. At this time they found 1767 vulnerable hosts: 107760 Total tests to date. 1767 Total vulnerable hosts found. It is also called the Shellshock vulnerability. As I mentioned in previous posts: … Read more