We haven’t looked at the sorry state of hotel security for a while, but we have done articles on hotel locks, and hotel business center computers before. The Naked Security blog recently published a story about the Russian hacker collective known as Fancy Bear, and their involvement in the use of the leaked NSA exploit Eternal ...
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There are four ways that a typical business user on a Microsoft Outlook/Exchange/Office 365 platform can utilize. While these may not be perfect, and all of them have issues, applying these solutions will help prevent your users for falling victim to phishing emails. These solutions are additive, and each additional solution deployed provides a further layer of protection.
Junk Mail Filter – Outlook comes with a built-in Junk Mail filter that, ...
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We already have some highly sophisticated weapons systems that use computer technology and electronics to do things on a battlefield undreamed of even a few decades ago. This does include robotic weapons systems. The important ingredient in all this tech is the presence of human control. At this point in time it still takes a human to drive these war machines.
But we are not the far from being able to ...
Continue Reading →Occasionally I will write a book review for this blog, and then set up an Amazon link in a half-hearted attempt at “monetizing” my blog. Let’s just say I haven’t quit my day job just yet.
Here are some great books for coders, and they should be funny for coders and anyone who ever has used a computer program (the rest of us.)
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.08/28/2017 02:40 PM EDT Original release date: August 28, 2017
US-CERT warns users to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity seeking to capitalize on interest in Hurricane Harvey. Users are advised to exercise caution in handling any email with subject line, attachments, or hyperlinks related to Hurricane Harvey, even if it appears to ...
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When I am investigating an email exploit, I will take a look at the email headers. Email headers in an email are a lot like the html code in a web site. This is information that the machines that create, send, and receive the email use for routing, and for providing other information about the message. As a human, we do not see the headers unless we specifically look for ...
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 ...
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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