Security Wandering

CLEVELAND, Ohio — More than 7,100 University Hospitals patients received notification by mail this week that their protected personal medical information was potentially exposed after a hard drive containing physician office data was stolen from a third-party vendor helping to upgrade the health system’s computer systems . Someone stole the hard drive from the car […]

Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps Like a super strain of bacteria, the rootkit plaguing Dragos Ruiu is omnipotent.   Three years ago, security consultant Dragos Ruiu was in his lab when he noticed something highly unusual: his MacBook Air, on which he had just installed a fresh copy of […]

Driven by the people element. End users still have the the keys to the kingdom and malware and phishing have clearly marked them for targeting.  The Standard number of targeted phishings at my employer is well over 20 a month.  The human element is still opening email from “DEAD cousin NED”  and we apparently all […]

Over on InfoWorld SECURITY Feed the post “Hackers reveal critical vulnerabilities in Huawei routers at Defcon” contains this text: “ Security researchers disclosed critical vulnerabilities in routers from Chinese networking and telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei at the Defcon hackers conference on Sunday. The vulnerabilities — a session hijack, a heap overflow, and a stack overflow […]

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Over on CNET News.com – Threats the post “Tools boast easy cracking of Microsoft crypto for businesses” contains this text: “ChapCrack and CloudCracker reveal sensitive corporate communications — including passwords — protected by the popular PPTP encryption protocol, which is based on an algorithm from Microsoft, a researcher says at Defcon.“

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Over on the post “Java Drive-by Generator – F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab”    <<< Tuesday, May 8, 2012 >>>   Java Drive-by Generator Posted by Karmina @ 15:27 GMT | Comments Ran across quite an interesting infection today. I visited a site that prompted me with a security warning about a ‘Microsoft’ […]

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