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Security News for the Week Ending September 6, 2019

Cisco: Critical Bug Allows Remote Takeover of Routers Cisco rated this bug 10 out of 10.  For users of Cisco 4000 series ISRs, ASR 1000 series aggregation routers, 1000v cloud routers and integrated services virtual routers, an unauthenticated user can gain full control just by sending a malicious HTTP request.  So yet another reminder that […]

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Top Threats To Cloud Security – The Egregious Eleven

The cloud has become an important part of every companies IT solution.  Whether you are using a third party software as a service or building your our solutions in the cloud, the cloud is not risk free.  Just ask Capital One if you have any questions about that. So what are the things that you […]

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Wireless Home Security – Good Theater, Bad Security

Alarm companies like wireless alarm sensors because they cost less to install and are prettier since there are no wires.  They are also remarkably less secure. It is useful to understand that you neighborhood junkie might not be able to pull off the attack, but any serious burglar would not have a problem. In this […]

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Self Inflicted Cyber Breaches Still Huge Problem Along with Third Party Risk

And it continues to be a major issue for some reason. This week researchers found 85 gigabytes of security log data (talk about a nightmare for a business to expose that) in an elastic search database. The server was discovered on May 27th and the data goes back to April 19th, so that might be […]

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A Cyber Event Interrupted US Power Grid Operations

Stories – and only stories – abound about whether the Ruskies have infiltrated the US power grid – years ago.  The government is not going to tell the truth for fear of scaring the crap out of people. On March 5th a “cyber event” interrupted the power grid in parts of the western United States.  […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending April 12, 2019

A New Reason to Not Use Huawei 5G Telecom Equipment The President has been trying to get our allies to not use Huawei equipment in the buildout of their next generation cellular networks due to concerns that the Chinese government would compromise the equipment. Now the British spy agency GCHQ is saying that Huawei’s security […]

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