Healthcare data at risk

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It is only a matter of time before health data will be plastered all over the Internet. A number of Blogs are discussing this very issue http://www.safelogic.com/exposing-the-risks-of-data-driven-healthcare/ is one.   Penetration testing for New England care solved some problems outside of security issues: http://www.coresecurity.com/content/penetration-testing-key-to-hipaa-compliance-for-care Penetration testing checks the boundaries of your computer systems. By using open source tools … Read more

Best Password Management

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Due to the bad password practices of the general population, the latest example is the Sony Pictures hack uncovering the passwords of Sony Pictures employees(as well as SSN and more):     As in our previous post where  we discussed the hack. Now various forums are picking apart the very bad password practices of Sony Pictures … Read more

Penetration testing example: exifdata function

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SANS pen tester  has an excellent example (guest written by Chris Andre Dale)  and also a new Zero-day Cross Site Scripting(XSS) example at SANS pen testing blog http://pen-testing.sans.org/blog/pen-testing/2014/12/04/cross-site-scripting-through-file-metedata   The vulnerability is based on exif data in jpegs: http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/38/what-is-exif/ You can view the EXIF data in Windows7 by right clicking on the image, choosing Properties and … Read more

SPOE – Second Pair of Eyes

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When is it necessary?  when entering an important command into a critical system that affects thousands of users. Or when you have to review your network to make sure no holes are found. the attacks on your network are relentless: Bad hackers  will attack your network and own your machines.   Once they own your machines … Read more

Manage a website?

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On the Internet if you manage a website then you should update the system in such a manner so that it should not get hacked. If the machine gets hacked you may inadvertently attack other systems.  Hackers are looking for systems to control (owning or p0wned) How are you certain that your IT department is … Read more