Miami is a fun place to live and work (there are actually people who work here). Its a great vacation spot, people enjoy the nightlife and now we have something else to crow about. The largest credit theft ring was based here! According to Bloomberg, “Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old Miami resident, and two hackers living [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hacking’
Web Security Testing has come of age
Posted: 20th July 2009 by admin in Compliance, Corporate StupidityTags: breach data, hacking, hipaa security, web security, Website security
Website security is the one of the most dangerous places for a company. If you look at a layered security approach, we start out with the internal network. There we have host security, patch management, host IDS and other server based technologies. Next we have the network security layers, network intrusion detection, network monitoring and [...]
US to set out cyber security plan -Baha to the rescue
Posted: 29th May 2009 by admin in Compliance, Corporate Stupidity, Government SecurityTags: antivirus, data loss, hacking, Managed Vulnerability Scanning, security, security metrics
Why did it takes us over 2 decades to really approach the cybersecurity topic. When I started in informatio security in in 1994, it was the wild west. People were creating processes, developing security frameworks and growing a whole new industry. I like to think I played some part in being on the early team [...]
Healthcare Security- Identity Theft and Hacker ransom
Posted: 7th May 2009 by admin in Hacking News, Identity theft, Managed Security, Web SecurityTags: hacking, Identity theft, web security
I hope no one is actually shocked by this story. Records are stolen everyday. Typically, the hackers will sell the information in the underground somewhere is Eastern Europe or Asia. The fact that someone is asking for ransom, and so publicly it actually a good thing in my opinion. Why is it good you ask? (I [...]