Tag Archives: security

BASH (Bourne-Again SHell) ShellShock Bug

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Carmelo

Stephane Chazelas, IT Manager at SeeByte, discovered a vulnerability in bash, related to how environment variables are processed: trailing code in function definitions was executed, independent of the variable name. For those unknowing, Bash is a command processor, typically run … Continue reading →

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Home Depot Breach

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Carmelo

Home improvement retailer Home Depot confirms its payment security systems fell victim to a massive cyber attack, possibly since April, at nearly 2,200 stores in the U.S. and Canada. Fishnet Security, Symantec, and the Secret Service are working to research … Continue reading →

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Should We Buy Credit Monitoring Services?

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Carmelo

With the ton of breaches that have been happening, we use one of the credit monitoring services, after this year though and all the breaches going on, one of the first services that is offered to potential victims, is credit … Continue reading →

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2014 IBM Cyber Security Intelligence Infographic

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Carmelo
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Mid-year 2014 Data Breaches Exposed

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Carmelo

2014 is going to replace 2013 as the highest year on record for exposed records, according to Risk Based Security. Mid-year 2014 at a Glance … • There were 1331 incidents reported during the first six months of 2014 exposing … Continue reading →

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The Art of Cyberwar

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Carmelo

This was a great presentation at the DefCon 20, tying together CyberWarfare and Sun Tzu’s Art of War.. Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher. The gentleman presenting is Dr. Kenneth Geers, an NCIS Cyber Subject Matter … Continue reading →

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Bruce Schneier: The Security Mirage

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Carmelo

My CISO brought this up today, so I’m posting it to watch it.

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Hacker Drones Hacking Drones

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Carmelo

I love Hak5.org and their proof of concepts with real world practicality. It’s all fun and games and you get to peer into the hacker mind, where the combining of separate technologies can be turned from prank to cybercrime and … Continue reading →

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Albert Gonzalez

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Carmelo

It’s hard not to be a little envious of the amazing technical skills and charismatic charm of Albert Gonzalez. Then again, I’m glad I haven’t done anything as crazy and super happy to not be serving a 20 year sentence. … Continue reading →

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Pablos Holman at TEDxMidwests

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Carmelo

This was a fun watch. Nerdy and fun.

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