World, welcome Beau! Beau, welcome to the world. Beau has joined us on 8/16/2014, at 3:43am. Courtney and Beau are doing well and Pat is looking tired from being a great husband and dad!
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Also, Becca got back from her trip and we got to see her again. I introduced her to her Uncle Pat.
Hear Chubb’s worldwide cyber risk manager Ken Goldstein discuss the perceptions of private company senior managers about their company’s exposure to data breaches, as revealed by recent findings from the Chubb 2013 Private Company Risk Survey.
I’ve convinced my boss to turn down candidates who spell HIPAA as HIPPA. Especially if they work in healthcare.
Who in the payment card industry misspells PCI?
I haven’t seen my beautiful niece since 1994
This is Tyler, Rebecca’s boyfriend, he’s a cool dude!
Here is Rebecca the last time I saw her.
Damien got his driver’s license! Look out!!!
A Russian cyber gang over the past several months has breached over 420,000 web and FTP sites to pilfer over 1.2 billion credentials. They are known as the CyberVors (Vors is thief in Russian). They used botnets to scan hundreds of thousands of websites for known vulnerabilities. Over 400,000 sites were identified to be potentially vulnerable to SQL injection flaws and the vulnerabilities were used to steal data from their respective databases.
Here is the Hold Security announcement.
Your data has not necessarily been stolen from you directly. It could have been stolen from the service or goods providers to whom you entrust your personal information, from your employers, even from your friends and family. But that doesn’t mean you’ve been hacked already. Not all of the credentials are valid or current. The CyberVor gang might have stolen credentials that belonged to an e-mail address that you no longer have or a password that you haven’t used in forever, even a default password automatically assigned to you by a website.
Hold on Hold… Hold Security will charge you to look you up? Sounds like a get rich quick scheme. So if I can claim I have 5 billion usernames and passwords and will charge you 10 dollars a month to look you up on my list… and if I can get all 5 billion of you to do so.
Where are we now compared to two years ago? Dr. John Barrett talks about the Internet of Things.
Genius!! I love the saying… compliance gives organizations security it requires, not the security it needs.
I really like how passionate James Lyne is about his field.
It was a presentation very similar to this that got me intrigued into the security field. It was a Cisco security conference in Tucson where the presenter hacked a Windows 2000 server. Yes, it was awhile ago.
Even more of a reason to have a solid Third Party Assessment program within your organization. Not one, or two, but three Israeli defense contractors who built the Iron Dome missile defense system were compromised by hackers. How were they hacked? One of them fell for email phishing attacks…
Once in the Israeli Aerospace Industries network, trojans and various tools were set up on systems. Eventually, 762 MB of data was taken, including dumped password hashes, system, file and network information. Information was gathered that allowed to gain access to Elisra.
More about this here.
This picture is how I feel we are certainly migrating war to.
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