By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Cross-site scripting is being blamed for a campaign trail hack. Someone took advantage of weak security to redirect visitors from barackobama.com’s “Community Blogs” section to rival Hillary Clinton’s home page over the weekend. A user identifying himself as “Mox” claims credit for the move on a post written just […]
Everyone gets spam that makes them scratch their head and wonder, “just what was this spammer thinking?” Well a cartoonist wondered the same thing and has started a website where he lampoons the worst of the spam with hilarious and clever daily drawings. You can check out the rest at ASpamADay here. Thanks to Neatorama […]
If you’re a heavy Internet surfer and are using Windows, you are probably vulnerable to a bunch of vulnerabilities in Adobe’s Flash Player without knowing it. A new version of the popular software has been just released, fixing seven flaws said to allow remote executable code to be run on a Windows system. From Infoworld here: Adobe has upgraded its Flash Player to fix […]
Hannaford Brothers Supermarkets didn’t know much about cybersecurity, but then again, most companies don’t. Companies that don’t use a full-time infosec staff rely on security providers to assess their network and provide solutions that fit their size and need, and hopefully, provides protection for them at an acceptable level of risk. Then those companies […]
By PatB Contributing Writer, [GAS] Hannaford Brothers Supermarkets, a large New England grocery store chain, reported that they suffered a data breach. The store’s network was penetrated and hackers were listening in during credit card authorizations. Already, there are 1,800 confirmed cases of fraud associated with the breach. At risk are 4.2 Million additional credit […]
There is a reason for information security and best practices. Ignoring things like setting strong passwords and having an account lockout policy will have perilous consequences. Just ask the 10,000 applicants to Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who had their personal information, including their social security numbers, uploaded to Bit Torrent. That data […]
By Mark O’Neill Despite the proliferation of file storage sites on the internet such as Dropbox, I am still a bit of an old fashioned geek at heart and I always end up emailing big files to people by zipping them first. But old-fashioned as I am, I am also paranoid, so I always encrypt […]
Horror stories about how corporations get their important data stolen from mobile devices have been plentiful in the past few years. To fight the problem, most companies now require that hard drives inside their mobile fleet get encrypted before leaving in the hands of employees. Normally, such a means would be more than enough to […]