The security industry is usually very quiet about how security affects their products. So in the new 3rd Quarter IBM threat intelligence Quarterly for 3rd quarter. the following 2 charts are very interesting: April 8, 2014 is… The effect of Heartbleed attacks on IBM customers
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Hacker attacks occur for many reasons: #1 Highest reason for an attack is to make money from the attack 8/19 Hackers hack Medical company – 4.5 million data sets stolen 8/5 Synology devices get ransomware 8/2 Jimmy… Why spend money on Security prevention?
It is an old security methodology to review what is necessary in a Security Strategy: People = we know people can cause security holes, give out security secrets, or perform unknown(and known) security problems… People, Process, Technology = Security strategy
BloombergBusinessweek article 7/17/2014 a. Discusses how Russian hackers infiltrated the NASDAQ network, b. Placed malware on one of the NASDAQ webservers. c. Thus creating a classic “watering hole” attack – where customers of NASDAQ were attacked… Nasdaq Hack teaches network vigilance
Patch Tuesday is the day Microsoft has deemed to give us their vulnerability fixes. It has to be done some time and so it is done on a Tuesday (right after Monday) and still in… Patch Tuesday is here 7/8/14
DARKReading has the highlights of the changes of v3.0 compared with v2.0 SearchSecurity also has a synopsis – with the 5 most important changes: 1. Pentesting (Penetration testing) 2. inventory system components 3. Vendor relationships 4. Antimalware… New PCI DSS v3.0 released Nov 2013
RealclearTechnology has an interesting article (the 4 headings below is my synthesis of the article) It is based out of the Cisco projections (linked in article). #1 issue there will be 4Billion Internet users, and 52%… 4 Future Internet trends and how they affect Security
Since we advocate testing your IT services and devices, what if your organization has cloud services? How about Amazon EC2? AWS compliance keep this in mind. It is as Amazon AWS(Amazon Web Services) says it is… Testing Cloud services
NIST has a computer Security division and they have revamped their The On-line Database: Access and Control policy and procedures There are many good areas to review in this website, including: Don’t forget the home workers: An… National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has new standards
