At the bottom of yesterday’s post on General Alexander’s extended interview with The Australian Financial Review, Glenn Greenwald appended: “The release date for my book on the NSA, privacy, and…
DetailsYou almost have to be on some deserted island with no Internet access to have not heard about the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability. This vulnerability is very serious and pervasive because…
DetailsThe list of top executives at Target who have been ousted because of the massive breach late last year has now extended to its President and CEO, Gregg Steinhafel. Target’s Chief…
DetailsWindows XP users should immediately apply Microsoft’s out-of-band patch addressing the critical flaw in Internet Explorer because attackers are specifically targeting users on the older operating system, FireEye researchers warned.…
Details“Should I change my password?” “OK, I changed my password, now I’m secure, right?” Media reports over the past month certainly heightened security awareness and drove the public to sit…
DetailsAcademia is acquiring an interest in cyber education on many fronts. Not likely to crank out cyber warriors at anywhere close to the rate needed to meet current demand, they…
DetailsMicrosoft released an out-of-band patch today for an Internet Explorer zero-day flaw, which was already being exploited in the wild. Surprisingly, Microsoft opted to release a patch for Windows XP,…
DetailsWhen it comes to penetration testing, it’s a fact that many organizations will engage third party consultants to perform the service. The reasons why this is so aren’t hard to…
DetailsHere we go again. A major zero day vulnerability in a widely deployed application, Internet Explorer, has been discovered. The usual cycle of discovery-disclosure-patch-announcement-exploitation has bee reversed this time. FireEye…
DetailsLast year SafeNet sponsored my work on a project to develop the Breach Level Index (BLI). The BLI is designed to provide a simple way to input publicly disclosed information on…
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