When it comes to cyber security, paranoia – or more accurately concern – is appropriate. One challenge that some information security pros have is that they see cyber security as black and white. In my opinion, there is no black or white when it comes to cyber security, only shades of gray. So when […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the last couple of months we have seen attacks on all of the major cyber security infrastructure products. Juniper. Cisco. Fortinet. Is this because something magic happened and opened the vulnerabilities flood gates? Unlikely. Is this because the hackers and/or intelligence community opened their kimonos and started sharing their zero-day vulnerabilities with us? Also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]VTech, the Hong Kong based maker of kids toys, among other items (like phones), has a truly novel solution to the whole cyber security problem. I am not sure why no one has come up with this as a solution before. As a reminder, VTech announced a breach in November of last year of their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Landry’s, which announced a breach last December, has revealed a few more details regarding the breach. One key detail still missing is the number of credit cards affected. Some of what we do know is – The breach affected 46 of the company’s brands including the high end restaurant chain Mortons and the Golden Nugget […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sorry, this post may be a little geeky. I have said that the world of SSL is terminally broken. Now I have some agreement. And the guys saying it are not “some guys in a diner”. They won the best paper award at the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. And they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A hacker has contacted Motherboard and claims to have hacked into a computer at DHS and downloaded 200 GB of data including employee contact information such as names, phone numbers, email addresses and such. The hacker claimed in a conversation with Motherboard that they got a userid and password but could not get past the […]
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