Database Security
Identity & Access Management: Give Me a REST
June 19, 2013 Added by:Simon Moffatt
RESTful architectures have been the general buzz of websites for the last few years. The simplicity, scalability and statelessness of this approach to client-server communications has been adopted by many of the top social sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Why? Well, in their specific cases, developer adoption is a huge priority.
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Google: Black Hat or White Hat?
April 23, 2013 Added by:Larry Karisny
Google has a perfect opportunity to be a leader in cybersecurity. Google’s recent network -- and acquisitions and hires -- in Austin, Texas, is an opportunity to do security right the first time.
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Attack Vector Undefined: Dismantling ‘Defense in Depth’ through Power Grid.
April 12, 2013 Added by:Mikko Jakonen
Well, before COTS (Commercial Off The Shelve) came popular in military and other organizations thinking their security, this could have been avoided. Nowadays, very difficult. Even in trailers. You still need only one computer making possible to interact with others – in many different NETs existing :)
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Protect Data Not Devices?
April 05, 2013 Added by:Simon Moffatt
As the devices becomes smarter, greater emphasis is placed on the data and services those devices access. Smartphones today come with a healthy array of encryption features, remote backup, remote data syncing for things like contacts, pictures and music, as well device syncing software like Dropbox. How much data is actually specifically related to the device?
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Identity Thieves Take a Bite Out of Apple
January 15, 2013 Added by:Kelly Colgan
Scammers are taking advantage of a product financing offer that presents identity thieves with the opportunity to fraudulently obtain instant credit approval to make online purchases. The crime is simple to carry out. All scammers need are the basic types of information commonly exposed in data breaches...
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Common Sense Cybersecurity
January 13, 2013 Added by:Larry Karisny
We start with one big problem. Internet architecture was never made for security. One of my earliest articles quoted the father of the Internet Vint Cerf by saying, "One of things incumbent on all of us is to introduce strong authentication into the fabric of the smart grid. We did not do that with the Internet."
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A New Way of Detecting Cybersecurity Attacks
January 04, 2013 Added by:Larry Karisny
Current IDS solutions have high instances of false positives and true negatives and are extremely costly to maintain. Current IDS solutions were not designed for today's hyper connected business processes with high volume of instances. Attempting to detect misuse or anomalous behaviors requires infinite numbers of rules, patterns or algorithms, which is not possible, and is therefore the cause of ...
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Fraud Files: When Tax Fraud Won’t Go Away
December 11, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
Though it could create procedural challenges for the IRS and the U.S. Postal Service, Congress could solve the problem by simply refusing to issue refunds before April 15. That way they could see who has duplicate returns filed, and investigate before signing over checks to the bad guys...
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E-mailing Passwords - Practice What You Preach
November 19, 2012 Added by:Bill Mathews
That’s right, I got an email with my username and password listed right there. That probably doesn’t anger normal people (let alone drive them to write an article about it), but I have never been accused of being normal so I’m pretty annoyed. Here, in no particular order, are my reasons for the anger and frustration...
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Modernizing Physical Security and Incorporating Best Practices Into New Assets
November 18, 2012 Added by:Michele Westergaard
Cyber security threats to the utility industry are increasing in number and sophistication. The North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) is increasing the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) regulatory requirements to ensure facilities are meeting basic standards in this area...
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Admin Rights - Your Achilles Heel
October 31, 2012 Added by:Paul Kenyon
Every organization experiences user frustrations and complications that result in support calls to the help desk. While each call may seem to suggest a unique problem, there could be a common root cause amongst them. Help desk calls often seem to be black and white – the machine works and now it doesn’t...
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Wrong response to zero day attacks exposes serious risks
October 22, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Recent revelations on Flame raise the question on the efficiency of zero day vulnerabilities, software bugs that hackers exploit to avoid security defenses on targeted systems. The real problem when we talk about zero-day is related to the duration of the period in which hackers exploit the vulnerability...
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Sidestepping Microsoft SQL Server Authentication
October 21, 2012 Added by:Brandon Knight
Penetration testers love compromising systems during assessments, and the most important portion of a penetration test is getting access to critical data and systems. So, post exploitation I generally head for the database servers. Depending on the permissions of the target there may be another hurdle to bypass...
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Top Ten Ways to Prevent Data Breaches
October 11, 2012 Added by:Paul Kenyon
Users with admin rights are loose cannons -- you just don’t know when or where they are going to strike, and the results can be devastating to the company’s security infrastructure. Once a problem occurs, it often unravels into a downward spiral taking your business - and reputation - down with it...
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Data is the New Perimeter for Cloud Security
September 12, 2012 Added by:Mike Gault
The security market in 2012 is estimated at $60 billion, yet adding more layers of perimeter security may be completely useless against a determined sysadmin working on the inside. The end result is that your data might or might not be secure – you simply have no way to prove it...
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The Data Compromise Evolutionary Clock Is Ticking
August 22, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
The digitization of medical records may make folks queasy, but it is also efficient, offering an opportunity to save both money and lives. It is in fact inevitable. Unfortunately, so are data breaches and the identity compromises that follow. We need to be deadly serious because lives are at literally at stake...
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