NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) released Special Publication 800-53 version 4 recently, and it covers the shortcomings in privacy and security in the national power grid, water control systems, dams, oil and gas utilities and similar computer controlled systems. There are no coherent or enforceable standards for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems that ...
Last year we took a look at the emerging changes to password policy that were coming from NIST. The final document is out, and the changes we looked at last year have pretty much made it into the final draft.
One of the sacred cows that was skewered was the “complexity requirement.” This is the requirement to use upper and ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Robots can crack safes faster than humans — and differently. We’re going to have to start thinking about robot adversaries as we design our security systems. From Wired via Schneier.
https://www.wired.com/story/watch-robot-crack-safe/
Over the past month, the Wordfence team has been tracking a ...
Continue Reading →I remember it as the “number sign” or the “pound sign.” Jeopardy contestants might know it is called an “octothorpe.” The symbol itself goes back to Roman times, and was used extensively in the telephone industry, appearing on touch tone phone keypads as a way to allow special dialing features.
First suggested by Twitter marketing guru Chris Messina as a way to group, organize, and follow an idea in the Twitter stream, it quickly became a social media staple used not ...
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The SANS institute released the results of a new survey recently, and found that cybersecurity professionals ranked phishing as the number one exploit this year. Phishing awareness training programs were seen by many as the best defense against phishing, spearphishing and whaling exploits. Something that was new this year was the reporting of so-called “malware-less” exploits that use “the built-in features of the operating system to turn it against itself without ...
One of the tactics that I am seeing more often is the clever use of web address spoofing in the web sites and landing pages used in phishing emails. This sort of spoofing has been used successfully even against people who have been training to detect phishing emails, and to check link destinations (using the hover trick) and double check web addresses in the browser address bar.
Here are some techniques ...
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