System admin Jim is sitting in a café getting his favorite cappuccino, while waiting for the drink to be prepared he flips open the notebook computer and goes to his favorite website – checking on sports and news. Then of course checks his email with outlook on his desktop. What he did not realize is … Read more
Our Linux admin is a pretty sharp guy, he is working on updating website technology (php version). We have to keep up with patches and new technical abilities. Unbeknownst to him, a hacker somehow placed a “crontab” entry which will run every 60 minutes shutting down defenses and opening other attack avenues. The hacker used … Read more
The problem with looking at this sophisticated target and Michaels attacks can make you think: That only happens to the big companies – my business does not provide a large target, so I don’t have to worry. That is unfortunately not true. Small organizations need to do the right thing and secure their resources … Read more
let’s discuss the credit card number fiascos of Target and Michaels. Krebs on Security Blog got the scoop on Jan 14. No business wants to be the focal point of an investigation: a large credit card processor was seeing hundreds of cards that all had been recently used at Michaels. And unfortunately Michaels has had … Read more
