Lizard Stresser, the “service” that came to fame on Christmas Day 2014 when it knocked Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s xBox web sites off line, has never gone away. Now it has a new claim to fame. The claimed purpose of the software was to allow web site owners to stress test their web sites under […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anti Virus software has long been a concern of the security community. While it endeavors to protect the user’s workstation, in order to do it’s job, it requires a lot of system level permissions. This week, at least with Symantec, that came home to roost. Tavis Ormandy a researcher from Google announced that he’d found […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Infosec Institute says that malicious cyber activity cost the US between $24 billion and $120 billion and worldwide that number was $300 billion to $1 trillion (see here). And that was in 2013! For investment professionals (and other businesses as well), poor cyber security practices which lead to being hacked can cause a complete […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs reported last week that they had found a dark web marketplace selling access to servers – possibly yours and mine – for as little as $6 and as much as $6,000. The key benefit of these servers is that since they are not actually the hacker’s servers, if they are able […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t normally publish posts on individual software updates, but Flash is such a mess and such a security swamp that I feel compelled to do that. Microsoft’s attempt to copy Flash – Silverlight – is even worse. It is so bad that Google doesn’t support it inside Chrome. My recommendation is that you uninstall […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For many people, they have their Windows desktops and laptops set to automatically install Microsoft’s monthly updates. For businesses, that is not usually the case. They need to make sure that the updates don’t break things and often, as a result, it takes a while for businesses to get the updates installed. In addition, for […]
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