Monthly Archives: October 2014

Tales from the Encrypt (RSA Video)

Happy Halloween!

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Breaches, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities in October 2014

This might be the longest one I’ve done so far: List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October http://t.co/AtYQ3vBJEa — Lewis Morgan (@LewisMorgan_) October 28, 2014 Payment information breach Dairy Queen Data breach hits 395 stores ‘Big K’ raided … Continue reading

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Reuben Paul, an 8-year-old Cyber Professional and CEO

An extension from this old post, the 8 year old, identified as Reuben Paul, has grown in fame. He demonstrates in this video, some of his mastery of hacking tools and his thought processes. Here is an article/interview from Tripwire.

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Microsoft’s Safer Online Videos #NCSAM

The Internet’s Most Wanted! Subscribe to the Microsoft Safer Online Youtube channel here.

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Payment Card with Smart Chip? So What?

Over the past week, at least three U.S. financial institutions reported receiving tens of thousands of dollars in fraudulent credit and debit card transactions coming from Brazil and hitting card accounts stolen in recent retail heists… The problem with that … Continue reading

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Halloween 2014

We had a fairly busy weekend with going to a Halloween party (and won first place for best couples costume) and even better, we got to hang out with our friends that I haven’t seen in awhile :) The next … Continue reading

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McAfee Exec on Cybersecurity

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2-Factor on LinkedIn

If you use LinkedIn, like I do. Enable 2-factor authentication to keep your professional profile and contacts secured. How embarrassing would it be if you are advertising yourself as a security and privacy professional and someone gets into your account … Continue reading

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Emailed PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office Attachments

A vulnerability, designated as CVE-2014-6352, is triggered when a user is forced to open a PowerPoint files containing a malicious Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) object. All Office file types can also be used to carry out same attack. The … Continue reading

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Staples Investigation

From Krebs on Security According to more than a half-dozen sources at banks operating on the East Coast, it appears likely that fraudsters have succeeded in stealing customer card data from some subset of Staples locations. It may have been … Continue reading

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