More advice from Bob; Verizon’s report on PCI compliance; Target hacked through HVAC contractor; Reporting fail on hacking the Winter Olympics; Optimizing the use of security budgets in larger organizations.
More advice from Bob; Follow up on Coke’s lost laptops; Honey Encryption to frustrate attackers; What the Target breach shows us about vendor risk; Managing the response to a data breach; More POS malware, this time with TOR goodness.
Coke loses 55 laptops and 56000 records over 7 years; Private cyber espionage network in India; Review of the Shell_Crew hack using Adobe Cold Fusion exploit; Should we punish employees who fall for phishing emails?; Assuming your network has been hacked; more details on the Target breach are emerging.
Bob’s wisdom for the week; Learning from the Target breach; Question: given the massive Target breach, the Neiman Marcus breach and rumors of 6 other significant retailers being breached, assuming Target and others were complying with PCI rules, what will be the PCI council’s response? AWS & GoDaddy hosting malware.
Advice from Bob; the Threat of Powerlocker, a new variant of ransomware; Senior managers are bad at security; More details emerge about the Target breach; and Jerry’s rant about the PTV situation.
More wisdom from Bob; Yahoo’s ad network delivers the magnitude exploit kit; OpenSSL site defaced by way of the hypervisor; How a 4 year long HIPAA breach highlights the need for activity monitoring; Credit Union files lawsuit against Target, seems to lack some facts; US CERT issues advisory on POS malware; 7 dodgy tips for protecting your organization from data breaches and why this security stuff is hard; A political rant on the state of security.
More advice from Bob; Chinese spear phish diplomats with Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy’s nude pictures; Network segmentation could have mitigated phishing attacks on governments; Krebs find organizations having systems with open RDP connections rented out; Generation Y employees have a dubious view on security; 61% of web traffic is automated; 5 recommendations on improving the security situation; Some great incident response documents from Society Generale; More ideas on cleaning up family’s computers when visiting for the holidays.
More security thoughts from Bob; A paper on thwarting targeted email attacks from Japan; Security recommendations for SMB’s from Sophos; An update on Badbios; How to handle our parent’s infected home computers over the holidays.