Security

Last Updated on 14 Dec. 2015, Total: 99 Blog Posts

  1. Free Cloud-based Vulnerability Scanner

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 11 April 2014
    • Section: Security

    Tripwire SecureScan provides free vulnerability scanning for up to 100 IPs and includes comprehensive detection rules for Heartbleed to uncover the vulnerability wherever it may lie on your network... Read More

  2. How to Educate Employees on Cyber Security

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 28 March 2014
    • Section: Security

    A robust Information Security policy and regular, mandatory training for all staff on information security is imperative... Read More

  3. GetGo Download Manager buffer overflow vulnerability

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 24 March 2014
    • Section: Security

    Julien Ahrens (aka MrTuxracer) publishes root-cause analysis of GetGo Download Manager http response header buffer overflow remote code execution... Read More

  4. What is Passive DNS?

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 17 March 2014
    • Section: Security

    Passive DNS or Passive DNS replication is a technique invented by Florian Weimer in 2004 where inter-server DNS messages are captured by sensors and forwarded to a collection point for analysis... Read More

  5. Buffer overflow vulnerability in Wireshark

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 11 March 2014
    • Section: Security

    Wesley Neelen from Hoffmann Investigations discovered an MPEG file parser buffer overflow in Wireshark... Read More

  6. Police Ransomware Threat Assessment

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 17 Feb. 2014
    • Section: Security

    The European Cybercrime Centre at Europol publishes its Threat Assessment on Police Ransomware – a class of computer malware that has seen exponential growth in the European Union (EU) over the last two years... Read More

  7. Office 365 Multi-Factor Authentication

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 13 Feb. 2014
    • Section: Security

    Multi-factor authentication increases the security of user logins for cloud services above and beyond just a password... Read More

  8. Enterprise Risk Management Simplified

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 6 Feb. 2014
    • Section: Security

    SimpleRisk is a free and open source web application, released under Mozilla Public License 2.0, and is extremely useful in performing risk management activities... Read More

  9. Mozilla Thunderbird Vulnerability

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 28 Jan. 2014
    • Section: Security

    The vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird email application 17.0.6 can result in multiple attack vectors on the client end which may eventually result in complete compromise of the end user system... Read More

  10. Does your organisation still use certificates with an RSA key-length of at most 1024 bits?

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 23 Jan. 2014
    • Section: Security

    The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) publishes a factsheet about certificates that contain RSA keys which are being phased-out. This provides you with more information and perspectives for action... Read More

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