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Did You Visit The Huffington Post Web Site Last Week?

CNN is reporting that visitors to HuffPo and several other major sites last week might have caught a virus from malware infected Advertisements. The malware only infected Windows PCs and only those running Internet Explorer 8 (does anyone really use IE any more?).  Even though IE11 is the current version of IE, according to CNN, […]

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Enterprises Are Still Failing At The Security Basics

VentureBeat wrote an interesting item pointing out some of the obvious things that Target messed up.  Fixing these items won’t stop every attack, but it certainly would slow the attackers down. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court recently Target missed the ball on a few things.  Of course, at this point, these are […]

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The Problem Of Attribution Of Cyber Attacks

In some sense, cyber attacks are no different that physical world attacks;  in other ways, they are completely different. Let’s assume that you did not physically catch some bad guys that broke into a building.  Do you know who broke in?  On rare occasions they leave something behind – there have been instances so rare […]

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Background on the group that took down Sony and Microsoft on Christmas

Unlike the Sony breach in November, the group that took down Sony’s and Microsoft’s game network on Christmas (see article) seems to be very interested in getting attention.  Hopefully enough so that the FBI finds them, but that is another story. What is more important is that the people who did this, according to Brian […]

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Why fingerprints should not be used for access control

A presentation at the Chaos Communication Congress (a large hacker convention in Hamburg, Germany that attracted about 10,000 visitors this year – sort of, kind of, like  Defcon here) demonstrated the ability to reproduce fingerprints of a target subject from just photographs.  Reports in PC Magazine say that the researcher, Jan Krissler, took photographs of Ursula von […]

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Is your encryption secure? – Sure, just like flying pigs (keep reading)

Der Spiegel wrote an article on efforts by the NSA and GCHQ (their British equivalent) to crack encryption of various sorts. Take the article at what it is worth;  it is based on documents that Snowden released, so it is a little bit old. I apologize that this post is pretty long, but there is […]

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