Member in the “Alliance for Cyber Security”
I am officially in the page of participants of the Alliance for Cyber Security. Click on the image to see the list: Look who is before and after me. I would say that I am in good company, right? 🙂
Category: Security
Yahoo was hacked in 2014 and lost the credentials of over 500Mil accounts
Oh boy…. they were hacked two years ago and they say it was a “state sponsored attack”. What the hack is that ?! How do you differentiate a hack done by an employee from a state sponsored attack? Let’s take it step by step: Yahoo has started to write to all affected customers this email: https://s.yimg.com/sf/support/en-us-security-notice-content.pdf Below […]
Dropbox was breached in 2012, the data is now online – a quote in SecurityWeek
68 Million Exposed in Old Dropbox Hack By Ionut Arghire on August 31, 2016 In an email response to a SecurityWeek inquiry, IT security expert Sorin Mustaca said that the surprising fact is that the 2012 hack of Dropbox didn’t emerge earlier, along with the other mega-breaches. He also notes that the use of the […]
How to easily secure your smartphone
Most people these days have a smartphone. These phones are actually no longer just mobile phones, in reality they are powerful mobile computers with several GB RAM, multicore CPUs and many GB storage. Despite these characteristics which bring them closer to computers than to phones, most of their users don’t consider security and privacy in […]
Social engineering at its best: ransomware delivery methods
I wrote already about Ransomware (and here), but in a more generic way as I will do now. From me to me, with the subject “Documents from work” is the subject of a new Locky ransomware. Attached is a Word document containing macros. In the document (which is actually an archive) is a file called word\vbaProject.bin. […]
BMW and cybersecurity
Not a month passes without seeing some major car manufacturer that has cybersecurity issues. This month we have seen made public a report from February 2016 related to BMW. The short story The BMW ConnectedDrive Web portal was found to contain a vulnerability that could result in a compromise of registered or valid vehicle […]
VPNMentor.com: Cybertalk with IT security expert Sorin Mustaca
Cybertalk with IT security expert Sorin Mustaca vpnMentor has had the privilege of talking with Sorin Mustaca, a Certified IT consultant with over 15 years of experience in IT security, and author of “Improve Your Security”, a guide for the common end user that deals with the question of how to beware of cyber […]
Network Access Control and IoT Security
Network Access Control, is an approach to computer security that attempts to unify endpoint security technology (such as antivirus, host intrusion prevention, and vulnerability assessment), user or system authentication and network security enforcement. When a computer connects to a computer network, it is not permitted to access anything unless it complies with a business defined […]
Do you actually need a security product in your car? Part 3 : Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems
I ended part 2 with the promise that we will discuss about : 2) Intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS or IDPS) From Wikipedia: Intrusion prevention systems (IPS), also known as intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS), are network security appliances that monitor network and/or system activities for malicious activity. The main functions of intrusion […]
Quoted in SecurityWeek.com: 45 Million Potentially Impacted by VerticalScope Hack
Source: http://www.securityweek.com/45-million-potentially-impacted-verticalscope-hack Author: Ionut Arghire, Security Week Here is my longer comment: LeakedSource writes on their website about a massive breach of VerticalScope.com and all its affiliated websites from February 2016. However, neither VerticalScope.com nor any of the websites mentioned in the LeakedSource page mention anything related to a hack. Even if denial […]
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