I love hash, especially corned beef hash, with a little salt. Maybe a couple of poached or over-easy eggs perched on top. Wait! This is not a foodie blog! That’s not what I am writing about today. As it turns out, using a hash plus a salt is a great recipe for keeping passwords secure on a web server or an authentication database.
If your password has been extracted from a web ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Israel Responds To Cyber Attack With Air Strike On Cyber Attackers In World First
And from Bruce Schneier and Wired.
Original release date: May 16, 2019
Microsoft has released ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.It’s Star Wars Day!! May the force be with you. Jedis, Greys, and Sith unite for a day for video watching and beer.
You might want to check your free space on your C drive before Patch ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Add this latest public warning system sabotage to a growing list of fear-and-panic-spreading hacking incidents.
Nudies, taxes, and memos – oh, my! Research shows that even if we think we’ve deleted content on the sticks, we’re leaving ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Russia has been hijacking signals sent by Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) systems such as GPS, researchers claim.
1,600 guests were filmed with hidden webcams that live-streamed the action. The site also sold videos.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.In our earlier post, we issued a warning to users of the Social Warfare plugin regarding a zero-day vulnerability affecting their sites. At this time, the plugin’s developers have issued a patch for the flaw. All users are urged to update to version 3.5.3 immediately.
If you are a small business owner or manager, you have a target on your back. You face a special set of risks from cyber-crime exploits. Most often, you do not have the financial resources to afford a full time IT support employee. You do not have the budget for expensive Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), or Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems. You might not even have a firewall, ...
I am showing up online in places other than this blog, and I wanted to share two of the most recent mentions.
I was interviewed for an articles in Financier World magazine, and the article appears in the April 2019 issue. The article is titled Cyber posture: the value proposition of security.
I recently reported on New WordPress Security Options, and my article was picked up and republished ...
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I have developed some expertise around the area of WordPress security. One of my clients has a WordPress site under development, and recently the web designer changed the name of the login URL from https://clientsite.com/wp-admin to https://clientsite.com/A9u3ycGH37. Basically, the wp-admin page name had been replaced with random characters. I found out when I tried to log in using the usual URL. I ...