Sometimes you can’t get out to a waterfall and just sit and meditate. Sometimes you have to create the waterfall and sit in the tub and make the world go away for one tiny minute.
First of all let me apologize for my absence. I’ve been very ill with multiple infections, including pneumonia. That stuff is nothing to mess with, much like information security. I’m finally coming out of the fog; therefore, this round-up will be a bit extended, because there’s some important things I hope you all didn’t miss.
First off, in case you need any other reason to lean more paranoid in regards to infosec: What if your laptop is listening to everything that is being said during your phone calls or other people near your laptop and even recording video of your surrounding without your knowledge?
Someone told me this week they don’t understand the cloud. Tried to explain that it’s basically someone you don’t knows computer. Cloud services can present unique infosec challenges. Some folks are working to fix that.
Disney is not immune to infosec problems. Apparently one of their productions is being held ransom.
You’ve probably heard of phishing. But have you heard of spearfishing
Information Security includes your personal documents, most assuredly. But what do you need to hold onto, what can you shred (burn, annihilate in some manner)? Here’s a little guide.
Protecting papers is one thing, what about your server room. Here’s an example of someone who did some great planning.
What’s new for your infosec book shelf? Here’s a few titles.
Our White Hat folks have been busy over this WannaCry Attack.
Got a Chiptole Card in your wallet? You might want to read this...another Data Breach.
If DefCon is your Mecca, you only have a short time left to submit for your demo lab breakout.
As in weeks past, feel free to leave a comment here about any of those articles. Let’s learn from one another. Okay, have pity on the noob and let me learn from you.
Have another great week InfoSec geeks. See you next week.
Sorry for the absence as of late. I’ve been very ill with multiple infections to include pneumonia. It’s been a hard, hard month or so. Right about the time I was coming out of the fog, I captured this moment with my sweet Alaskan Husky, Yuki. Enjoy.
It’s hard cropping this past week’s InfoSec news down to a succinct list, but here goes….
There’s a few people super happy they don’t use Webroot this week, as the antivirus provider had a bit of a meltdown.
If you’re not following Martin Vigo, you may want to. His educational bent on exposing flaws is refreshing and I dig his attitude. He doesn’t act like he knows all, a tendency I’m noting from many in the InfoSec field, calls out his own mistakes, learns from them and moves forward. Good on ya, Martin.
It seems you can’t talk about InfoSec or hackers without a Russian flavor to it, especially where politics are concerned. Again, I’m so interested in the psychology of that, however, at this moment in the news Tuesday a security firm claimed that a new cyberattack against the campaign offices of the front-runner in France’s presidential race carried similar digital ‘‘fingerprints’’ to the suspected Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee and others.
On the heels of that, people at Harvard have some ideas that maybe the government, or your own company, might want to take into consideration in order to digitally improve security.
Last Friday there were simultaneous power outages in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The power companies say it wasn’t an attack. But it’s kind of weird and I’m not convinced. In an effort to turn this weekly posting into more of a conversation, what do you think?
As in weeks past, feel free to leave a comment here about any of those articles. Let’s learn from one another. Okay, have pity on the noob and let me learn from you.
Have another great week InfoSec geeks. See you next week.
Since moving to Western Washington, my husband and I have had a 55-gallon tank of freshwater fish. In June, we will have lived with these fish for eleven years. Especially, Leviathan, our plecostomos fish. We used to have a pirate ship and a sunken treasure decor in the tank, but had to take it out because “Levi” needed more room. He was barely an inch long when we got him from the aquarium store. Now he’s more than a foot long. There’s at least one Buenos Ares Tetra and a Black Skirt Tetra that have been with us that long, too. Fish can die pretty quickly. But at least a few of them have been with us a decade plus. They can calm you down when the insomnia strikes, or the stress of #LifewithAutism strikes, or you just need a time out from your life. I give you a quick view for this week’s One Minute of Zen. Enjoy.