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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Sony Cyber-Attack Timeline
Also, Sony is hiring a Director of Vulnerability Management, among other Information Security roles.
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Tagged 2014, Cyber-Attack, infographic, sony, Timeline
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JP Morgan Follow Up: 2 Factor Authentication Fail
Back in October, I wrote about JP Morgan getting breached, and 76 million households and 7 million small businesses were affected. (83 Million in total) Most big banks use two-factor authentication, which requires a second one-time password to gain access … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, breach, Chase, computer security, JPMorgan, two-factor
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German Steel Mill Hacked
A spear phishing attack led to a German steel mill to perform an unscheduled shut down and a blast furnace could not be shut down as normal. Attackers were very skilled and used both targeted emails and social engineering techniques … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, auf der steel mill, hacked, Information Technology Security Awareness, Security Awareness, spear phishing, spearphishing
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Arnold on Passwords
How strong are your passwords?
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Tagged 2014, Arnold, lol, passwords, Schwarzenegger, strong
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Anunak, Russian/Ukraine Bank Hackers
An ATM gang has stolen more than $15 million from Eastern European banks, To gain a foothold inside financial institutions, the “Anunak group” — sent bank employees targeted, malware-laced emails made to look like the missives were sent by Russian … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, ATM, banks, Brian Krebs, Group iB, hackers, malware, passwords, phishing
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Social Engineering
No, not that Taylor Swift, this Taylor Swift.
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Tagged 2014, people hacking, social engineering, swift on security
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Staples Follow-Up
Back in October, it was announced that banks were investigating Staples based on fraudulent card activity. Staples’ data security experts detected that criminals deployed malware to some point-of-sale systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail stores. Upon … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, credit card, hacked, malware, staples
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ICANN Targeted in Spear Phishing Attack
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers have announced that their system were compromised by a phishing attack. Some of the staff of ICANN fell victim to a spear phishing attack. From their website: ICANN is investigating a recent intrusion … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, hacked, ICANN, Information Technology Security Awareness, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, passwords, phishing, Security Awareness, spear phishing
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PCI Professional Certification
I got my PCI Professional Certification today.
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Tagged 2014, achievement unlocked, Internal Security Assessor, PCI Compliance, PCI Professional
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8 Videos on Strategic Planning Management
It’s easy to forget some of the basics that I don’t deal with every day. Erica gives a great review without getting too deep into it all. Erica Olsen seems to know her stuff.
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Tagged 2014, back to basics, Erica Olsen, Kaplan and Norton, KPIs, OnStrategyHQ, Strategic Planning, strategy, SWOT, video tutorial
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