Posts Tagged ‘penetration testing’
Security for the SMB: Preventing a Business Nightmare
T-Mobile. Home Depot. Target. California State University. All are large organizations that fell victim to expensive data breaches because of a third-party vendor, nor are they alone in that list! For any small to medium-sized business (SMB), there are two very important points to be aware of: 1) Small companies are, in fact, targets. Whether they…
Read MoreWanna Cry? Updating your systems is crucial!
When hacking exploits had been leaked from the NSA last month, it offered a hacking toolkit to anyone in the world who wished to try to use them. The companies responsible for the effected programs, such as Microsoft, had immediately scrambled to update – or had, in fact, already provided updates – to defend against these…
Read MoreTiro Security Founder interviewed by HACKIN9 magazine
One of our Founders Kris Rides talks about his role as CEO aka Chief Everything Officer at Tiro Security. He discusses the challenges running a boutique Information Security company that provides both staffing and professional services.
Read MoreTarget to pay $20M to MasterCard over hack
One of 2013’s most publicized security breaches was the renowned Target hack. Now two years later, the multibillion dollar giant is reported to pay as much as $20 million to banks issuing MasterCard over costs from the incident.
Read MoreOne month until the ‘Reset the Net’ movement to fight NSA surveillance
Privacy advocates have decided it is time for Internet users to take more serious measures to resist surveillance from National Security Agency and other alleged spy groups. The movement for users and developers to deploy newer and better security and privacy tools was introduced by Fight for the Future and has support from over 30 groups including Reddit, Imgur, Free Press, Libertarian Party and Demand Progress. June 5, the one year anniversary of the first news stories on Edward Snowden’s leaks about NSA surveillance, is the date ‘Reset the Net’ will initiate.
Read MoreWeb Application Security on the rise as 2013 comes to an end
Almost a third of all security breaches are against web applications, and web applications and databases have the most records compromised yearly. So why aren’t applications being better protected?
Read MoreApple’s iMessage is DEA Disaster
Apple’s iMessage app appears to be giving the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency real problems because they are not able to trace and track text message conversations lie conventional SMS. When Apple’s iMessage was announced in mid-2011, Cupertino said it would use “secure end-to-end encryption” and sure enough messages sent between two Apple devices are encrypted communication and cannot be intercepted. iMessage protocol is actually on Apple push notifications (APNS) – a proprietary protocol. An…
Read MoreAnother Fake Shipping Notice Virus Hits Windows Users
Online criminals are again targeting Windows users with mass emails faking DHL shipping notices. Reports confirm the emails with the subject “Express Shipment Notification” are designed to install Malware onto the computers of unsuspecting PC users. A typical example of the email looks like this: The attached ZIP file name varies but generally consists of “DHL…
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