Are You Breached? Know What To Look For

The average number of days between a network intrusion and it’s detection by the victim is around 200 days, which is at least 199 days too long.  Sooner or later your company will suffer an network intrusion, computer incident, or data breach, in spite of your best efforts to prevent it.  The goal is to shorten the time between intrusion and detection.

A recently article on Tech ...

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The Economics of the Tech Support Scam

We have reported a few times about the tech support scammers who use cold-calling phone lists or browser pop-ups with 800 number “support” lines to trick people into paying $300 or more for “malware removal” and other services that the computer doesn’t need.  And the pop-ups can be scary and convincing as in the example image.

Naked Security recently reported on the work ...

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Linksys Wireless Routers Have Security Vulnerabilities

Research firm IOActive recently released a an article that revealed some serious security deficiencies on popular Linksys Smart Wi-Fi products.  They have notified Linksys, and Linksys is working on the firmware upgrades that will be necessary to fix these issue, and they have issued a security advisory.

Among the vulnerabilities discovered:

  • Unauthenticated attacker can create a ...
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Why Biometrics Aren’t the Answer

Happy World Password Day.  I have been following the progress that NIST is making in formulating new standards for user authentication.  Something I found surprising was that NIST is not recommending using biometrics as a form of authentication.  The two main reasons are that biometrics, such as fingerprints, iris scans, and voice recognition, are not a secret.  For instance, you leave your fingerprints behind everywhere you touch ...

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FBI: Lottery Scammer Pleads Guilty

Back in December we wrote about FBI Operation Hard Copy in order to warn our readers about telemarketing lottery scams and how they work.  Recently, the FBI reported that one of the people arrested in that operation had plead guilty to one count of wire fraud.

According to the FBI:

Ronald John Mendleski, 72, of Bokeelia, Florida, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud before U. S. Magistrate ...

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US Cyber Command Takes on North Korean Missile Program

I read an interesting article in the New York Times earlier this month, about how the United States is using cyber-warfare tactics against North Korea to slow the development of an inter-continental ballistic missile that can reach the United States.  The effective range maps were startling.  (see below)

It seems that Trump has inherited a cyber war program from the Obama administration that was started 3 years ago and targeted the North Korean missile development program.  Since that time, there ...

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