Resources

Blog

How Anthem Could Be Breached

According to the Associated Press, the attackers who targeted and exfiltrated more than 80 million customer records from Anthem Inc, were able to commandeer the credentials of at least five different employees. We know from Anthem themselves that at least one admin account was compromised, as the admin himself noticed his credentials being used to...
Blog

The Year of The Hack

It seems only fitting that 2014 should have ended with the much publicized hacking of Sony as the American public was inundated all year with one sensational account after another of damaging data security breaches. Those surrounding Target, UPS, K-Mart, Staples, Dairy Queen and Home Depot have certainly received the full attention of the media, as...
Blog

Microsoft Packing More CVEs into Fewer Security Bulletins

Patch Tuesday, the unofficial day on which Microsoft regularly releases security updates for its software products, has long been a staple of the information security community. On the second (and sometimes fourth) Tuesday of every month, Microsoft releases a unique set of security bulletins that provide patches for a range of new Common...
Blog

Cyberattack Projected to Have Little Impact on Sony’s Earnings

Sony’s projected third quarter earnings suggest that a cyberattack back in November of 2014 will have a lower financial impact on the conglomerate than originally expected. As of this writing, Sony was posed to announce a net profit of ¥31.91 billion ($269.54 million) for Quarter 3 in 2014, compared to a net profit of ¥27 billion a year earlier....
Blog

Hackers Hit Health Insurer Anthem, Millions of Customer Records at Risk

Anthem, the second largest health insurer in the United States, has admitted that hackers broke into its servers and accessed databases containing sensitive customer information. According to a statement issued by Anthem, who were formerly known as Wellpoint, both current and former customers are at risk after the hackers managed to gain access to...
Blog

The 60/40 Security Rule

On any journey we take as we progress through life, occasions will arise when we arrive at a juncture where we recognise that somewhere way-back, we may have taken a wrong turn, which has brought us to a less than ideal place – an imposition which I believe we find ourselves in today with mitigating cyber crime and its associated threats. So, first...
Blog

Harvesting Your Data From The Internet of Things

Last week, I presented a talk at OWASP's AppSec California titled "We All Know What You Did Last Summer," where I spoke on the topic of privacy, security and the "Internet of Things." My primary focus was not necessarily on the privacy and security of devices themselves, but more regarding the security implications of the data they generate. I used...
Blog

Comparing Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities can, unfortunately, be found in all types of web-based applications. Indeed, they appear to be rather ubiquitous across the web. XSS falls into the category of code injection vulnerabilities and is a result of web-based applications consuming user-supplied input without proper filtering and sanitization....
Blog

Cybercriminals Use RansomWeb Attacks to Hold Website Databases Hostage

A security firm has identified a new method of attack in which hackers encrypt the data stored on website servers and demand a ransom payment for the decryption key. In an article posted on its blog, High-Tech Bridge explains how its security experts first detected the attack back in December of 2014. According to the firm’s research, the attackers...
Blog

The Voice of the CISO: Interview with Brian Engle

Last month, we interviewed Thom Langford, the Director of Sapient’s Global Security Office. Among other things, he explained to us how critical people are to an organization’s cyber security success, not to mention how the CISO is instrumental in framing security issues so that different target audiences can understand them. As part of our ongoing ...
Blog

How to Manage Certificate Expiration Effectively

Tripwire Enterprise isn’t just a change detection and compliance tool. The core ability to execute commands on agent boxes and network devices, capture the results and run the results through a series of tests can be applied to other use cases, as well. These use cases are limited only by the imagination of the user. One such use case is...
Blog

Raptr Hacked, Users Asked to Change Their Passwords

Raptr, a popular gaming social network website, has urged all of its users to change their passwords following a recent hack. In a security update message posted on Raptr’s site, Founder and CEO Dennis Fong disclosed the incident to the Raptr community: “Maintaining the highest level of security around your Raptr account information is of the utmost...
Blog

Cyberterrorists Seek to Cause Physical Harm

The premise of a January 27, 2015, article by CNBC is that there is good evidence that a cyber attack against nearly any country’s critical infrastructure could be imminent. This kind of reporting has become so commonplace, but this doesn’t seem like just more FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) journalism. According to Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of...
Blog

Clearing the Air with Gogo Inflight Internet

Gogo has become a household name by keeping consumers connected at 10,000 feet with the popular Gogo Inflight Internet service. Recently, however, Gogo has been receiving attention and, more specifically, criticism, in the wake of a tweet from Google security engineer Adrienne Porter Felt (@__apf__) to Gogo (@Gogo). The tweet referenced a...