by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the call-the-internet-police dept. Recently, I had found out (through my log files) that my wireless router was subject to a Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) brute force PIN attack. After looking on the Internet and discovering that there are indeed many...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 20, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the for-higher-love dept. “You thought you had successfully avoided the tiresome password guessing bots groping at your SSH service by moving the service to a non-standard port? It seems security by obscurity has lost the game once more. We’re now...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 19, 2013 | NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
Security pros warn about believing everything you hear about malware, zero-day attacks, compliance and more They’re security myths, oft-repeated and generally accepted notions about IT security that…simply aren’t true. Security Myth #1:...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 15, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY, Technicals
from the no-more-flash-or-java-in-fighter-jets dept. Last night before the State of the Union speech, President Obama signed an executive order for improving cybersecurity of critical infrastructure (PDF). The highlights of the order are: ‘information sharing...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 15, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the but-don’t-worry-they’re-just-1s-and-0s dept. MIT Technology Review reports that efforts by U.S. government agencies and defense contractors to develop malware to attack enemies is driving a black market in zero-day vulnerabilities. Experts warn...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 14, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the but-password-stealing-is-wrong dept. An article by some Microsofties in the latest issue of Computing Now magazine claims we have got passwords all wrong. When money is stolen, consumers are reimbursed for stolen funds and it is money mules, not banks or...
