The most recent distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) meant that most people could not get to Twitter. While that was awful and may have forced a few people to actually work instead of tweeting, for the most part, that was not a big deal. In fairness to the DYN attack, there were actually hundreds […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As a follow on to last week’s posts on why patching is critical and the CERT alert on The Shadow Broker’s release of a whole raft of firewall hacks, this week Cisco is announcing that their software is vulnerable to attack, there is no workaround and they are working on patches. BUT, there is a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last month a hacker group known as The Shadow Brokers released a series of exploits that they said belong to an NSA contractor that has been called the Equation Group. Whether the Equation Group is real and whether they are a vendor of exploits to the NSA or not is really not terribly relevant in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has decided to lead the way on web, as it often has. In this case, Google has announced that as of January 1, 2017, web pages that transmit credit cards or ask for passwords over HTTP (vs. HTTPS) will be marked with this flag in the address bar: Some of will say that this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Merchants want you to believe that HTTPS equals secure. I keep saying that it doesn’t. Here is another story for my side of the argument. First, a little background. If a web site want to support HTTPS (also known as SSL or TLS), they need to have a certificate. The certificate is used as part […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sage Group, an international cloud based accounting, payroll, HR and CRM services company acknowledged a breach this week. The breach affects around 300 companies based in the U.K. but the value of the breach is not in who got breached, but rather the lessons to be learned from it. The company provides accounting and payroll […]
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