Wired had an article a while ago (January 6th 2014) To understand the problem, you need to understand the embedded systems market. The problem is the chip manufacturers make custom devices with custom parameters, that frequently… Yet another difficult Internet problem: embedded computers are rarely patched
By “casing” can also be called enumeration, where the hacker reviews what type of systems that you have on the Internet. It is the first step in attempting a breach into your infrastructure. Here is… Hackers are casing your computer systems now
PCISecurityStandards.org has a website and it’s response to the Target Data breach: “As part of this security effort, the Council maintains that adherence to and maintenance of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is… PCI compliance – what does it entail?
Dark Reading has an interesting article about how Target was compliant with PCI(Payment Card Industry) standards and it was not enough. The Point of Sale terminals were infected with malware specific to Point Of Sale terminals,… Develop new & better security postures – PCI compliance is not enough
On today’s Internet Storm Center Diary : Johannes noticed an odd attack coming from what turned out to be a DVR in China. This is a shape of things to come, unattended devices, which never get patched… Shape of things to come? Bots attacking us?
Unfortunately in this day, it is not enough to have a person on staff to handle your IT work, or even be in charge of Security tasks. How can you be certain that tasks are… Being “secure” what does that mean?
Violent Python is a book by TJ. O’Connor. http://mirror7.meh.or.id/Programming/Violent_Python_A_Cookbook_for_Hackers_Forensic_Ana.pdf It is interesting how Python can use nmap and other opensource tools (metasploit) to probe and review computer systems.
When trying to login to WordPress I got this message instead: (output started at public_html/wp-content/plugins/twitter/widget_twitter_vjck.php:171) in public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 896) Which is interesting to say the least. So after searching the Internet for a similar… Interesting WordPress problem – could not login to wp-admin
It is a good idea to get in the habit of patching your systems consistently. Not wanting to reboot is sometimes a wish of all of us, as we do not want to close all… Patching systems consistently
On patch Tuesday Microsoft has decided to roll up all the vulnerabilities found in the last month on one day, otherwise as each vulnerability gets created and fixed there would be many of them spaced… Why patch Tuesday is so important