As my years of IT security experience taught me, the insider is the most dangerous threat. I guess I know what I’ll be doing this weekend…making sure none of the Hostgator servers under my control were rooted. At least it sounds like the situation was mitigated. You all might want…
Yesterday I got the email that millions of other people got in regards to Evernote resetting my password due to someone hacking into their user data system. The investigation has shown… that the individual(s) responsible were able to gain access to Evernote user information, which includes usernames, email addresses associated…
A pretty interesting analysis of major websites and what they do with your personal data. Why would ESPN want to send my username to Adobe? Why is Pinterest sending my name to Google Analytics? I’m interested to see who is bothered by this, or if anything is done about it.
They are coming in 2014, according to this. Just imagine what it will be like walking out of the mall to your car, looking up to see a drone checking you out. And you know that sooner or later they will be outfitted with tasers. This is the impending wave…
Still using Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8? WHY? Targeted zero day attack being used against Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 Microsoft have published a security advisory for a zero day attack being used against a “targeted audience” using Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8. This atypically means corporate…
An older vulnerability that got ignored in 2007 is showing up again. According to Acunetix’s Bogdan Calin, this particular vulnerability is exploitable through the platform’s XMLRPC API (through XMLRPC.PHP). Attackers could try and guess hosts inside each network they target, port scan those hosts, reconfigure internal routers and launch large scale…
