The NSA released a 5 page document last week on keeping malware out of your network. 5 pages with links to hundreds of pages of other NSA documents. It would probably take a year just to read and absorb them. Then you have to deal with implementing the suggestions. Some are simple, some are hard. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The National Law Review has a great article on board member’s responsibility in the area of cyber security. One quote from the article: a 2012 Carnegie Mellon poll of how U.S. boards are managing cyber risks found that 71% rarely or never review privacy and security budgets, 80% rarely or never review roles and responsibilities, and nearly […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is not exactly an “Internet Of Things” issue, it points out how long it takes to get things fixed and how the tail of a bug can live on forever. In the case of the Internet of things, people rarely patch their refrigerator, so that bug will live on until the refrigerator is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to multiple news reports (like BBC, Forbes, and Computerworld), Sony has been hacked again. This time they were hacked by the GOP (no, not that GOP, the Guardians of Peace). So, here is what Sony’s office looked like yesterday – and your’s might if you get hacked. Employees came into the office yesterday, turned […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired reported on an interesting (yes, I know I am strange, to think that malware attacks are interesting, but they are!) malware attack. The malware, known as DarkHotel, pops up a message alerting the user to a software update as soon as they connect to the hotel’s WiFi. Of course, the update is not a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ars technica reported yesterday on a very sophisticated trojan that has been around, they say, since 2008, went dark in 2011 and came back in 2013. The trojan is comprised of 5 stages, all but the first of which is encrypted and is serially decrypted to avoid detection. The interesting part about it is that […]
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