Cyber Warefare – Safeguard Your Electronic Devices. When employees travel abroad here are ten electronic devices security tips I pulled from a recent New York Times article, “Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery” by Nicole Perlroth. Nicole discusses electronic devices security policies and practices of the State Department, Google, Bookings Institution, and McAfee executives when traveling to China and Russia...
Cyber Warfare: Techniques, Tactics and Tools for Security Practitioners by J. Andress and S. Winterfeld Each Friday I will post a review on this book: Cyber Warfare: Techniques, Tactics and Tools for Security Practitioners, and today I am sharing what I am reading in… Chapter 2: The Cyberspace Battlefield All wars have a battlefield and cyber warfare is no different...
Who has the best password manager? Cyber attacks are on the rise in 2012. That is the prediction by many security experts. Individuals, industries and agencies are all trying to find safeguards that will reduce the risk of an attack. But what is the best solution? Do you use Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), One Time Passwords (OTP), Single Sign-On (SSO) or Password Management (PM)? Before I, or anyone else can answer that you first need to understand your environment, what are you protecting, what are the risks and who else would have access...
Lifehacker recently posted a great article called The Stupid Things You Do Online (and How to Fix Them). Here are some of additional comments that may also be helpful. Stupid Thing #1: You Undervalue Your Personal Data Did you know that when a company goes through valuation by a venture capitalist the number of email accounts is reviewed? So while you might not value your information, corporate America does...
With all the news articles about China hacking into American companies, India breaking into the US Government, Wikileaks, data breaches, cyber-attacks, Pentagon elevation that cyber-attacks could be regarded as an act of war, etc., I thought I had better educate myself and make the leap from identity theft protector to cyber warrior...
The Smart Card Alliance offers platitudes but don’t identify the culprits! The Smart Card Alliance released their weak response to the recent Sykipot Tojan attack which hijacked the Department of Defense authentication smartcards. Unlike hypothetical attacks on smartcards (the Chinese Remainder Theorem Attack comes to mind with the use of a microwave oven and a calculator) this is a real threat to the security of one’s network and data but not so much to the smartcard itself...
Recently there was a story about the arrest of a former Obama campaign staffer who was caught in a scheme to impersonate Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz. It is unclear at this point whether the intention of Zach Edwards was to use Mr. Schultz’s personally identifying information to gain politically or financially by either opening credit cards in his name or selling his information on the open market, but he certainly had the ability to do so...
Online shoe and apparel shop Zappos, now owned by Amazon, reported earlier this week that 24 million users names, e-mail addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, and the last four digits of credit card numbers may have been illegally accessed. In response to this breach, Zappos has expired and reset all passwords...
Physical identity theft occurs when thieves come in close contact with their victims or the information they’re stealing. for example, Thieves may engage in dumpster diving, where they look through garbage, or literally dumpsters. to find papers with account numbers, addresses, name of family members, Social Security Numbers, drivers license numbers, or anything else that identified an individual...
Lucian Constantin’s recent article “Expect more cyber-espionage, sophisticated malware in ’12, experts say” states that cyber-attacks in 2012 will increase with more sophisticated malware. Certainly companies like MicroTrend, Symantec and others have their work cut out for them to eradicate these attacks once they are launched...
