Friday, July 19th, 2013
85 percent of U.S. adults with banking accounts are at least somewhat concerned about online banking fraud, according to Entersekt. Such fraud can include phishing, malware, man-in-the-browser and brute force attacks.
While concern is worth noting, it is action that impacts the ultimate health of a financial institution. Seventy-one percent of ...
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Friday, July 12th, 2013
Computer manufacturer HP has admitted that its StoreVirtual servers also contain an undocumented backdoor. The security vulnerability risks allowing attackers to gain unauthorised access to the storage systems. The backdoor provides users with direct access to the holy of holies, "LeftHand" (the operating system for the StoreVirtual server). HP has ...
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Saturday, July 6th, 2013
Brute-force attacks are fairly simple to understand, but difficult to protect against. Encryption is math, and as computers become faster at math, they become faster at trying all the solutions and seeing which one fits.
These attacks can be used against any type of encryption, with varying degrees of success. Brute-force attacks ...
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Friday, July 5th, 2013
I was geeking out a bit tonight thinking about a friend's situation and thought that I could probably do something useful in Splunk that might be helpful to others. Sure enough, a few minutes later and I am viewing all my active netstat connections geographically as they are established:
Once the ...
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Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
At Opera Software, we are committed to the security and privacy of our users. This is paramount to us, and as such, we want to share the details of a recent incident with you.
On June 19th we uncovered, halted and contained a targeted attack on our internal network infrastructure. Our ...
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