The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the defense department group that brought us the ARPAnet, the nascent beginnings of the Internet, in 1969, has moved into the territory of Google, Bing, and Yahoo, and is creating a search tool called Memex. The problem with the commercial search engines is that they do not catalog the Internet underground known as the Dark Web or ...
Information technology certification has always been a daunting proposition. The books and study materials are expensive, and classroom training is expensive, and the exams themselves are not cheap either. Couple these costs with the time it takes to study, prepared, and test, time that can’t be billed to a client, and therefore hits your bottom line.
Finally, some good news for cybersecurity professionals, and those that would like to be: ...
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Windows 10 will be featuring a built in security feature called Hello, as well as Passport, for online security, and is supporting the FIDO Alliance as well. Hello will use fingerprint, facial recognition or iris scanning to authenticate you to your computer, and from there, authenticate you to your domain or workgroup resources. The facial recognition camera ...
If you are running a WordPress site, please be aware that the popular site builder and blogging platform is a popular target of cyber-criminals. This is due to it’s popularity as a do-it-yourself design tool, and it’s ubiquity (about 20% of Internet sites are coded in WordPress), and the fact that many WordPress site managers do a poor job of keeping ...
As we get into the summer travel season, here are a few recommendations to help you security your smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Let’s remember that even short trips from home to the coffee shop or library can expose you and your devices to risks.
Wireless access points represent a point of entry when you are away from home. Most coffee houses and restaurants offering public wireless Internet do so using ...
I’ve been hearing stories about baby cams, nanny cams, laptop cams, computer cams, and inexpensive home security cameras that have been hijacked due to poor or non-existent security setting, and set up for viewing on the camera feed aggregation site www.insecam.org. These feeds are not just nurseries, but bedrooms, living rooms, and a variety of exterior locations. These feds also display GPS coordinates, which makes it trivial to find the exact location of the feed source. See an ...
Continue Reading →Saw this for the first time this week and had to include it. Apparently there are a bunch of “Hitler and…” parodies on YouTube. So enjoy at your own risk.
Continue Reading →As the age of password authentication falls to newer and faster password cracking hardware, software, and list building tools, technologists have been looking at other authentication methods. Many of these techniques we have covered here: two-factor authentication (2FA), secure key, smartphone authentication apps, Google’s USB security dongle, fingerprint readers, and other biometrics.
Recently, Samsung, together with SRI, have started working on an iris recognition authentication methodology called IOM or “Iris On the Move.” The human iris, the colored part of the eye, ...
Continue Reading →Modern cyber criminals are using more sophisticated blended attacks to achieve some pretty spectacular monetary hauls. The Dyre Wolf malware exploits is currently be combined with a spear-phishing approach, a telephone based social engineering middle, and a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the back end to access corporate bank accounts and wire transfer large sums of money. Originally uncovered by IBM’s security team in 2014, this exploit had netted on cyber-crime group over $1 million dollars. The IBM ...
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