Being of German heritage, I am always fond of German humor. Yes there is such a thing!! Come on!! Anyway, from Pinterest again.
There is a small company in the Czech Republic called Turris that developed a home and small office wireless router that may be the most secure small router available. That is – when it’s available in April. Right now its an Indegogo project. You can pre-order it now for about $200.
This is an open-source project running OpenWrt. According to the manufacturer, the router will be available in ...
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Monday we looked at issues with the business class routers at Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems. Today we are going to look at an exploit affecting the Ubiquiti brand of cable modems.
Cable and DSL “modems” are used by most consumers, and many small businesses to connect their home or business network to the Internet. These “modems” are really routers.
(It has been a personal pet peave of mine that these devices were called ...
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At the end of December last year Juniper Networks discovered that some malicious actors had added code to the firmware and software that run their routers, creating a back door that would allow attackers to access the router remotely, assume administrator privileges, and view and decrypt VPN traffic running through the routers. As the story unfolded, it turns out that Juniper was using a random number generator from NIST, and that the ...
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We were recently featured in the January edition of New Business Minnesota. This is a monthly business magazine published by Pat Boulay. You can download a copy of our featured article, Cyber-criminals Put Every Business At Risk, here. There are some additional helpful links below the picture.
Pat also runs a great business networking meeting once a month as well, ...
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I got this announcement yesterday and thought I’d post it here for interested cybersecurity professionals.
The 2016 CISSP Study Group for (ISC)2 “Common Body of Knowledge Examination” is forming with the first session starting Feb 23, 2016. The study group is scheduled to last until June 28.
Background:
The board of directors of both the Minnesota Chapter of ISSA and the Twin Cities Minnesota (ISC)2 Chapter agreed to sponsor a CISSP Study Group. ...
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Continuing with my interview with Carolyn Heinze:
CH- What are the key ingredients of a sound security preparedness strategy?
- BW- They are:
- Patch
- Backup
- Keep anti-malware software updated
- Watch for and report suspected email exploits
- Good password policy coupled with two-factor authentication when possible
- Create an environment of cybersecurity awareness through training and fun employee events.
CH- When we think of cyber security, the tendency is to consider breaches that come from the outside. What can organizations do to protect themselves from breaches that can potentially come from the ...
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This is hot off the press. Yesterday Malwarebytes announced a beta of a new anti-crypto software product designed to stop CryptoWall4, CryptoLocker, Tesla, and CTB-Locker. You can download the beta here.
According to Malwarebytes:
Continue Reading →“Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware monitors all activity in the computer and identifies actions which are typical of ransomware activity. It keeps track of all activity and, once it has ...
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I recently had my second interview with freelancer Carolyn Heinze, and the questions were so interesting I decided to replicate the interview in a couple of posts this week.
From: Carolyn Heinze
Subject: Interview Request – tED Magazine
Dear Bob,
I interviewed you a while back for an article on ransomware that appeared in ChannelPro. I’m working on another article for which I thought you’d make a great source. Here’s the scoop:
I am writing an article on cyber security, and more specifically, ...
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