My IT is outsourced – I don’t worry about security
Recently I had a discussion with an executive, and he said he outsourced his IT functions, so I don’t have to worry about it anymore. Is that right? So i…
Escalation Privilege threats – What’s the big deal?
Mitre has a nice article on how thin client technology with Secure Remote Peripheral Encryption Tunnels (SeRPEnT). Their image shows how a thin client can have a trusted connection to…
Staples now investigating breach
Brian Krebs broke the story again, since he reviews the bank fraud channels, as well as the crook channels in Russia and elsewhere at times. Tripwire has a good video…
False Positives Bane of ITSecurity
Internet Storm Center discusses the month of CSAM false positives: ” The HUGE problem with this is false positives and false negatives.” Fortinet Blog post discusses the pressure on IT…
Anti-Malware diligence or Cryptowall 2.0 file destruction
A customer handed me a computer that was infected with Cryptowall 2.0 With this message: I cleaned the computer of the virus portion of the problem, but unfortunately as on…