An Open Letter To IT Recruiters
An Open Letter To IT Recruiters So maybe this is not a letter per se, but the title fits as I hope many IT Recruiters read this. I have been around …
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Intro to Malware Dynamic Analysis: Part 5
Intro to Malware Dynamic Analysis: Part 5 By John Hubbard This is the first post in a wonderfully enlightening series of five. A new post will be posted every Thursday …
Intro to Malware Dynamic Analysis: Part 4
Intro to Malware Dynamic Analysis: Part 4 By John Hubbard This is the first post in a wonderfully enlightening series of five. A new post will be posted every Thursday …
CVE-2018-10641
Announcing CVE-2018-10641 I am announcing a vulnerability that I found in the D-Link model DIR-601 home router. The hardware version is A1 and the firmware is 1.02NA. Model: D-Link DIR-601 …
Intro to Malware Dynamic Analysis: Part 3
Intro to Malware Dynamic Analysis: Part 3 By John Hubbard This is the first post in a wonderfully enlightening series of five. A new post will be posted every Thursday …
Intro to Malware Dynamic Analysis: Part 2
Intro to Malware Dynamic Analysis: Part 2 By John Hubbard This is the first post in a wonderfully enlightening series of five. A new post will be posted every Thursday …
Intro to Malware Dynamic Analysis: Part 1
Intro to Malware Dynamic Analysis: Part 1 By John Hubbard This is the first post in a wonderfully enlightening series of five. A new post will be posted every Thursday …
Privilege: The Before and After of a Breach
Privilege: The Before and After of a Breach By Thomas Ritter Let’s start with a trivia question: Q: What do the companies Target, Genesco, and Experian all have in common? …
Joe’s IBM Content Ahead of RSA
Joe’s IBM Content Ahead of RSA Hello everyone! I just wanted to bring your attention to a few links with IBM Security involving my speaking engagement at RSA Conference next week …
GUEST BLOG: My CISSP Success Story
My CISSP Success Story By Sean D. Goodwin Laying the foundation I have worked very hard for every academic success I have achieved. For some people, excelling at school work …
Reverse Engineering Malware Progress #1
Reverse Engineering Malware Progress #1 I am writing this blog post as a series to help others that are learning to reverse engineer malware in their journey as well. There …
Social Engineering Awareness Programs: Part 5
SOCIAL ENGINEERING AWARENESS PROGRAMS: PART 5 MAINTAINING THE PROGRAM The opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect those of Joe’s employers: past, present, or future. While I am a …
Social Engineering Awareness Programs: Part 4
SOCIAL ENGINEERING AWARENESS PROGRAMS: PART 4 CLICKING THE PHISH: INTEGRATING WITH INCIDENT RESPONSE The opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect those of Joe’s employers: past, present, or future. …
Social Engineering Awareness Programs: Part 3
SOCIAL ENGINEERING AWARENESS PROGRAMS: PART 3 Reinforcement and Incentivization The opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect those of Joe’s employers: past, present, or future. While I am a …
Cybersecurity: Beyond Anti-Virus
Cybersecurity: Beyond Anti-Virus INTRODUCTION In the wake of the WannaCry Ransomware epidemic, this is a means to secure themselves beyond the typical advice regarding antivirus. This is not meant to …
Russian Hacking and Disinformation Campaigns
Russian Hacking and Disinformation Campaigns A Post-ShmooCon Analysis By Meagan Dunham Keim In this excellent piece by guest blogger Meagan Dunham Keim, she provides a synopsis of the two ShmooCon …
Social Engineering Awareness Programs: Part 2
Social Engineering Awareness Programs: Part 2 Note: This blog post originally appeared on CISOCast on 27 January 2017; This embedding does not work with NoScript or other Content Security Filters since iFrames …
Phishing Family Tree Now: A Social Engineering Odyssey
Phishing Family Tree Now: A Social Engineering Odyssey Note: This blog post originally appeared on Black Hills Information Security on 26 January 2017; This embedding does not work with NoScript or …
What is Insider Threat?
Note: This blog post originally appeared on AlienVault’s Blogs on 23 January 2017. OTHER POSTS JOE’S BLOG ON CISOCast CISOCast: Building an Effective Social Engineering Awareness Program – Part 1 JOE’S BLOG ON JENNY …
Social Engineering Awareness Programs: Part 1
Social Engineering Awareness Programs: Part 1 Note: This blog post originally appeared on CISOCast on 17 January 2017. OTHER POSTS JOE’S BLOG ON CISOCast CISOCast: Building an Effective Social Engineering Awareness Program – Part …
Evolution of PCI
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Ransomware Gaining Momentum
Ransomware gaining momentum This post is meant to educate readers about previous and future impact of Ransomware attacks and the lessons learned from them. These are from my own perspective. While I …
Social Engineering: Failed
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AlienVault Top 12 Blogs of 2016
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Dyn DDoS: What It Means for Supply Chain Security
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When Friendly Thermostats & Toasters Join The IoT Dark Side
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Help families Affected by the Smoky Mountain Wildfires
Help families Affected by the Smoky Mountain Wildfires If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that I am not one to ask for help or money. I am not asking …
Adult FriendFinder Data Breach
Adult FriendFinder Data Breach DISCLAIMER: The purpose of this blog post is NOT to discuss the morality of Adult FriendFinder, the morality of “hook-up” websites, or the morality of hacking/cyber-attacks. This is …
Burgling from an OSINT Point of View
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Holiday Scams and Hoaxes
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Credit Card and E-Commerce Security
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The Security of Porn
The Security of Porn This post is meant to educate readers about the recent Internet of Things (IOT) Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and the lessons learned from them. These …
Beware: US Elections Phishing, Malware, & Hoaxes
Beware: US Elections Phishing, Malware, & Hoaxes This post is meant to act as a means to inform people that there may be hoaxes, phishing campaigns, click-bait, and malware related …
Joe Gray Giving Training November 16
Joe Gray Giving Training November 16 at Annual Metro Atlanta ISSA Conference Joe Gray will be giving a 3 hours COINS (Community of Interest in Networking and Security) style training …
Beware: Walking Dead Phishing Schemes and Malware
Beware: Walking Dead Phishing Schemes and Malware This post is meant to act as a means to inform people that there will be Walking Dead Phishing Schemes and Phishing in …
Don’t #FALL Victim to a Cyber Attack!
Don’t #FALL Victim to a Cyber Attack! OCTOBER IS NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY AWARENESS MONTH Don’t #FALL Victim to a Cyber Attack! National Cyber Security Awareness Month was first implemented in 2004. …
Joe Gray Giving Talk October 12
Joe Gray Giving Talk October 12 at Georgia Gwinnett College Please see the flyer and map below. Please RSVP if you plan on attending so we can inform the College how …
NSA Secrets Stolen; Edward Snowden 2.0?
NSA Secrets Stolen; Edward Snowden 2.0? As the name implies, this is based on my analysis of another NSA contractor stealing secrets, similarly to Edward Snowden. I have no insider …
Kim Kardashian: An OSINT Cautionary Tale
Kim Kardashian: An OSINT Cautionary Tale As the name implies, this is based on my analysis of the sequence of events of Kim Kardashian’s robbery in Paris, France. I have no …
October: National Cyber Security Awareness Month
OCTOBER IS NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY AWARENESS MONTH National Cyber Security Awareness Month was first implemented in 2004. It is co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National …
Implications of Powershell Going Open Source
Note: This blog post originally appeared on AlienVault.com on September 26, 2016. Announcements and Resources SANS Mentor Session Security 504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling Joe will be …
Yahoo Data Breach: What We Know Now
Yahoo Data Breach: What We Know Now If you have been online in the past couple of days, you have likely seen something about a Yahoo data breach, whether it …
Most of What You Need to Know: Wi-Fi
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9/11: We Remember
9/11: We Remember September 11, 2016 The victims and their families, friends, and loved ones are in out thoughts and prayers. We will not forget. We are posting this blog …
US Elections Hacked?
First, I would like to thank you for reading this blog post. It is the first of two, maybe more, parts. Before we get started, read the three disclaimers below. …
Most of What You Need to Know: Passwords
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Cybersecurity & the US 2016 Presidential Election
First, I would like to thank you for reading this blog post. It is the first of two, maybe more, parts. Before we get started, read the three disclaimers below. …
Twitter Hacked?
Twitter Hacked? Was Twitter Hacked? Per Tech Crunch, 32 million Twitter login credentials are being sold on the dark web. A Twitter spokesperson said “We are confident that these usernames …
FCC FTC Look at Mobile Updates
FCC FTC Look at Mobile Updates The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are looking for details on how companies release their mobile security updates. Per CNET, …
Anonymous To Target Banks In Month-Long Attack
Anonymous To Target Banks In Month-Long Attack Members of the hacktivist group Anonymous stated in a YouTube video that they would be targeting banks around the world over the next …
Change Your Email Password Now!
Change Your Email Password Now! All indications are pointing in the direction that you should Change Your Email Password Now according to reports from BGR, Reuters, and IB Times among others. According to Hold Security, …
Discounted EC-Council Training Event
Discounted EC-Council Training Event Advanced Persistent Security has partnered with the EC-Council to provide a discounted EC-Council Training Event to our readers and listeners. The codes are only good for the Hacker …
Qatar Bank Breached After Bangladesh
Qatar Bank Breached After Bangladesh It’s been quite the week for the banking industry with multiple headlining hacks occurring throughout the world with Qatar National Bank being the latest victim. …
Bangladesh Bank Loses 80 Million USD
Bangladesh Bank Loses 80 Million USD …with a $10 router …and NO firewall …We’re NOT making this up… The Bangladesh’s Central Bank was hacked in February 2016 that stole $80 million (they …
Ransomware Infects Android 4.x
Ransomware Infects Android 4.x and Earlier Ransomware has been sighted infecting older versions of Android in a Blue Coat lab environment. It was discovered using several vulnerabilities to install the malware silently …
Spotify Allegedly Hacked…Again
Spotify Allegedly Hacked…Again Tech Crunch is reporting streaming music service Spotify has allegedly been hacked…again. They were previously breached in 2009 and 2014 as well as February 2016 according to …
Uninstall QuickTime on Windows NOW
Uninstall QuickTime on Windows NOW! Trend Micro has detected two vulnerabilities with QuickTime for Windows and are now urging Windows PC users to uninstall the software. You can read more …
U.S. House Approves E-Mail Bill
U.S. House Approves E-Mail Bill USA Today is reporting that the U.S. House Committee approves a bill regarding e-mail. It passed 28-0. It is dubbed as the Email Privacy Act. …
Apple Indirectly Assisted the FBI in Hacking Terrorist iPhone?
Apple Indirectly Assisted the FBI in Hacking Terrorist iPhone? Recently we have all been an audience to the Apple versus FBI debacle that unfolded over the course of a few months with …
MedStar Health Cybersecurity Fails to Prevent Attack
MedStar Health Cybersecurity Fails to Prevent Attack According to the Associated Press The MedStar Health hospital chain was the victim of hackers earlier this week. These unidentified hackers broke into …
Adobe Patches Exploited Vulnerability
Adobe Patches Exploited Vulnerability Adobe rushed out an emergency patch to fix a Zero-Day threat. According to Krebs on Security, Adobe is warning that the vulnerability is already being exploited …
Ransomware Locks MBR
Ransomware Locks Master Boot Record Ransomware has become very popular recently. It’s being used to encrypt data on machines and requiring money to restore access to the information. Now PC …
Iranian Hackers Hit With Federal Charges
Iranian Hackers Hit With Federal Charges Seven Iranians have been indicted by the U.S. Attorney and the FBI in connection with 46 different cyberattacks including the 2013 attack on the …
Spear Phishermen Target Corporate W-2 Data
Spear Phishermen Target Corporate W-2 Data The Back Story As if tax season is not already stressful enough, the season ending April 15, 2016 has …
Google Fixes Kernel Vulnerability
Google Fixes Kernel Vulnerability Google has began patching a security flaw in the Linux kernel that was discovered two years ago. It’s allowing users to gain full root access. Per …
4 Things to Know About Ransomware
4 Things to Know About Ransomware Hello everyone! I am still here, I have just been busy behind the scenes for a while. I plan to write more blogs and resume …
Ransomware Hits Mac Computers
Ransomware Hits Mac Computers Apple computers were hit with it’s first ransomware case on Friday. According to USA Today, it was downloaded by about 6,500 people before Apple shut it …
IRS Targeted in Another Cyberattack
IRS Targeted in Another Cyberattack IRS recently admitted it yet again had been the target of a sophisticated cyberattack. In an attempt to steal the E-filing pins of over 460,000 …
Linux Mint ISO Embedded with Backdoor
Linux Mint ISO Download With a Backdoor If you attempted to download Linux Mint on Saturday, February 20th, then you could be the victim of malicious software. According to …
NSA Advice to Prevent Them from Hacking You
NSA Advice to Prevent Them from Hacking You Last week the Rob Joyce the NSA head of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations-The NSA’s lead team for computer network exploitation used …
Tim Cook Pushes For Higher Encryption Standards
Tim Cook Pushes For Higher Encryption Standards at White House Summit Earlier in January, in a meeting called by the White House to discuss counter terrorism, Apple CEO Tim Cook …
Will Cyber-Insurance Become the Norm?
Cyber-Insurance to Become the Norm? Let this sink in, by 2019, the cost of cybercrime worldwide will be 2.1 trillion from Juniper research. In 2012, The Wall Street …
AVG Exposes 9 Million Users’ Data with Chrome Plugin
AVG Exposes 9 Million Users’ Data with Chrome Plugin In today’s ever-growing cyber world, consumers look to cyber security giants for 24-hour support and protection, but we are constantly reminded …
Major Vulnerability Fixed in OpenSSH
Major Vulnerability Fixed in OpenSSH One of the most known secure shell programs OpenSSH just fixed a major bug that could leak secret crytopgraphic keys. According to PC World, OpenSSH …
Casino Sues Cybersecurity Firm
Casino Sues Cybersecurity Firm Affinity Gaming has filed a lawsuit against Trustwave. Affinity claims that after Trustwave was hired to investigate and analyze an initial data breach, Trustwave missed a …
PlayStation 4 Hacked to Run Linux
PlayStation 4 Hacked to Run Linux Have you ever wanted to play Pokemon on your PlayStation 4? Well accroding to N4BB, a group known as the Fail0verflow team modified the …
Microsoft to Inform Users of State-Sponsored Email Attacks
Microsoft to Inform Users of State-Sponsored Email Attacks According to Reuters, Microsoft will now be notifying email users of hacks of their accounts if they discover that it could be …
State-Sponsored Hack of Twitter
State-Sponsored Hack of Twitter Twitter this past Friday announced it had found evidence of a possible state-sponsored hack on its networks. According to Twitter, these “state-sponsored hackers may have tried to …
Windows 10 Data Collection to Rival the NSA
Windows 10 data collection to rival the NSA Many probably have heard that Microsoft installed quite a bit of spyware onto their newest installment of Windows. This data collection scheme …
Top 5 Trending Cyber Crimes
Top 5 Trending Cyber crimes Continuing the current Top 5 series, this week we look at the top 5 trending cyber crimes of 2015. 1: Cyber Espionage One …
Popular Toy Maker VTech Breached
Popular Toy Maker VTech Breached Organizations such as the federal government are always on alert for a cyber attack and now companies that cater to children will have to be …
Remain Vigilant this Shopping Season
Remain Vigilant this Shopping Season Advanced Persistent Security wants you to remain vigilant this shopping season. We are entering the busiest time for commerce. We are days away from Black …
Top 5 Cybersecurity Holiday Shopping Tips
Top 5 Cybersecurity Holiday Shopping Tips As we enter the holiday shopping season at full speed on Friday, with many places as early as Thursday, we will be spending more …
Potential Amazon Password Leak
Potential Amazon Password Leak ZDNet broke the news that Amazon had a potential password leak. Amazon said, “it recently discovered that your [Amazon] password may have been improperly stored on …
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving from Advanced Persistent Security This Thanksgiving, you don’t have to be a Turkey and get stuffed, letting malware gobble all of your resources! Be thankful for Cybersecurity and …
Top 5 Cybersecurity Threats in 2015
Top 5 Cybersecurity Threats in 2015 In this week’s Top 5 review we will be discussing the Top 5 cybersecurity vulnerabilities and threats in 2015. This isn’t designed to be …
Top 5 Cybersecurity Myths That May Surprise You
Top 5 Cybersecurity Myths That May Surprise You! Cybersecurity has some of the greatest myths of cyber-security might surprise you a bit if you know anything about cyber-security and if …
Microsoft State of Security Address
Microsoft State of Security Address Microsoft State of Security Address: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke in Washington D.C. today and discussed how the company is spending more than $1 billion …
Peace in Paris
Peace in Paris We posted to our social media last night, but decided to post a blog about it as well. Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by …
Happy Veterans Day
Happy Veterans Day Happy Veterans Day to all active duty, reserve, retired, and former military from Advanced Persistent Security. As a veteran-owned business, we value and appreciate the sacrifices that veterans …
Adobe Flash: Hacker’s Best Friend
Adobe Flash: Hacker’s Best Friend Adobe Flash Player is the most targeted by exploit kits. A new report by Recorded Future and posted by ARC shows that eight of the …
Are your neighbors snooping through your computer?
Are your neighbors snooping through your computer? Wireless networks are one of the most inherently insecure networks you can run. Because of this fact, most businesses who take their networks seriously …
Vodafone Breached Days After TalkTalk
Vodafone Breached Days After TalkTalk Days after TalkTalk was breached, Vodafone is now admitting that they were attacked as well in what Sky News is reporting as a separate attack. …
Data from the Anonymous OpKKK released
Data from the Anonymous “OpKKK” released At 3:26 pm CDT, the infamous hacking group Anonymous finally released the data on the Klu Klux Klan it had been promising for the …
Arrest in TalkTalk Hack
Arrest in TalkTalk Hack According to CNBC, A 15-year old boy has been arrested in relation to the hack of a U.K. phone company which was feared as one of …
Cybersecurity Jobs Not Appealing to Younger Generation
Cybersecurity Jobs Not Appealing to Younger Generation Despite a job gap in the cybersecurity market which has been a booming market for the past several years, the younger generation 18-26, …
CIA Director Email Hacked by Teen
CIA Director Email Hacked by Teen Earlier this week, a self-proclaimed hack going by the persona “Cracka” hacked the personal email accounts of none other than Central Intelligence Agency director, …
Congress Pushes Revamped CISPA
Congress Pushes Revamped CISPA It seems as if the US Congress is back in the business of making “powerful friends” again. By friends, I mean enemies. This time, it is …
ISO: DeLorean DMC-12
ISO: DeLorean DMC-12 Great Scott! We are in search of a DeLorean DMC-12 with 2 or 3 occupants: Martin (Marty) McFly, Dr. Emmett Brown, and Jennifer Parker. You can expect to …
T-Mobile/Verizon Android Device LTE Security Vulnerability
T-Mobile/Verizon Android Device LTE Security Vulnerability Carnegie Mellon University CERT database has published a vulnerability notice regarding the newest security vulnerability that affects Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile networks. Per …
NSA breaks 1024-bit encryption | NSA
NSA breaks 1024-bit encryption According to a recent article by Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger, what most people feared in the cryptography fields looks all too real, the NSA is in the …
Latest Bug for Adobe Flash the Nail in the Coffin?
Latest Bug for Adobe Flash the Nail in the Coffin? Could the most recent bug spell death for Adobe Flash? Will Adobe Flash live to see 20? Version 20 that …
Cyberwar Begins New Arms Race
Cyberwar Begins New Arms Race Per The Register, security guru Bruce Schneier believes we are in the early years of a cyberwar arms race. Schneier is the CTO of Resilient …
Why the Future of Android Depends on Security
Why the Future of Android Depends on Security: If you own an Android device, you have noticed an increase in the frequency of software updates over the past year. With …
Best Cybersecurity Advice for Small Business
The Best Cybersecurity Advice for Small Business: Small Businesses are what America, and much of the world, was built upon. They are the clients, vendors, and competitors to the larger …
Experian Data Breach Follow-up
Experian Data Breach Follow-up: This is a follow-up to the Experian Data Breach that we covered here. Per Bloomberg (2015), “T-Mobile US Inc. and a unit of credit-tracking firm Experian Plc …
Dow Jones Subject to Data Breach
Dow Jones Subject to Data Breach: Per The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Co. (Ticker: DJI) are the next name in a long line of victims of cyber attacks and data …
Nuclear Facilities At Risk of Cyber Attack
Nuclear Facilities At Risk of Cyber Attack It appears as if Nuclear Facilities At Risk of Cyber Attack. According to a new report by Chatham House (2015), nuclear facilities are …
Scottrade Victim to Data Breach
Scottrade Victim to Data Breach Per Wired, (2015) “FOLLOWING NEWS THIS week that hackers stole data on 15 million T-Mobile customers comes a new report that 4.6 million customers of the …
Government Backdoors Threat to Security?
Government Backdoors Threat to Security? Digital encryption has always been known as the best way to keep data from being read by parties who aren’t supposed to be reading the …
The Helpful Hacker?
The Helpful Hacker? A new hacker or virus of sorts is making it’s rounds. Normally, when we write about these, we discuss how the wiley cyber criminal made off with …
October: Cyber Security Awareness Month
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month National Cyber Security Awareness Month was first implemented in 2004. It is co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National …
The Next Massive Data Breach-Experian
The Next Massive Data Breach-Experian Apparently, the relationship between T-Mobile and Experian has soured for the immediate future. Per CNET (2015) “Hackers stole the personal data of 15 million …
Donald Trump’s Hotels Infected with Malware
Everything seems to be going the right way for Presidential Candidate Donald Trump lately, until yesterday that is. Trump Hotel Collection (“THC”) released a legal statement (Trump Hotel Collection, 2015) …
Cyphinx – Cyber Security Gaming
Cyphinx – Cyber Security Gaming The United Kingdom government has created a game that targets a younger audience to get into cyber security. (Recruiter) According to Motherboard the game is …
Cyber Security and the Automobile Industry
Cyber Security and the Automobile Industry In the wake of several other cyber security blunders in the automobile industry as of late, namely (Tesla) and (Chrysler), Volkswagen is now …
Chinese and US Cyber Relations Remain Cold at Best
Chinese and US Cyber Relations Remain Cold at Best Cyber relations with China have never been very warm; perhaps cordial at best, but this past week’s meeting between President Obama …
First Major Attack on Apple’s App Store
First Major Attack on Apple’s App Store Apple has been subjected to it’s first major attack on the App Store. The company with a stringent app review process had to …
The Cyber Security Landscape Today
The Cyber Security Landscape Today I am going to do things a little differently this week. Since there are no major cyber attacks to cover at the time that I …
When will Flash stop being the exploit of choice
When will Flash stop being the exploit of choice? Adobe Flash has long been something of a controversy among security personnel due to its massive amount of known vulnerabilities. Both …
Android Lock Screen Vulnerability
Android Lock Screen Vulnerability If you are running the Google Android Lollipop mobile operating system and use a password to lock your phone, then your phone could be hacked. Ars Technica …
Connect with Advanced Persistent Security
Connect with Advanced Persistent Security At Advanced Persistent Security, we take the client experience and customer service very seriously. We want to connect with you so you can provide us …
Excellus Blue Cross and Blue Shield Hacked
Excellus Blue Cross and Blue Shield Hacked Another health care provider has been the subject of an attack. Excellus Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) was the target of what the Washington …
Cyber attacks Plague US Department of Energy
Cyber attacks Plague US Department of Energy Cyber attacks Plague US Department of Energy, to the tune of over 150 times between 2010 and 2014. It shouldn’t come as a …
OPM Cyber attack: Impact on Federal IT
OPM Cyber attack: Impact on Federal IT If you’ve watched the news in the last 6 months, chances are you’ve heard about the Office of Personnel Management’s mismanagement of the …
9/11: We Remember
9/11: We Remember September 11, 2015 The victims and their families, friends, and loved ones are in out thoughts and prayers. We will not forget. We are posting this …
Baby Monitors Vulnerable to Cyber Attack
Baby Monitors Vulnerable to Cyber Attack Background As a somewhat unsurprising revelation, Baby Monitors Vulnerable to Cyber Attack is a theme gaining traction around the media today. Computer World reported in early …
Ashley Madison Data Breach: Follow Up
Ashley Madison Data Breach: Follow Up DISCLAIMER: The purpose of this blog post is NOT to discuss the morality of Ashley Madison (AM)/Established Gentleman (EM)/Avid Life Media (ALM), the …
Flaws in Kaspersky FireEye products
Flaws in Kaspersky FireEye products Kaspersky Background On September 5, 2015 Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher and Google employee, in a controversial fashion, tweeted that he’d found a major zero-interaction …
Netflix Ceases Antivirus Use
Netflix Ceases Antivirus Use: Our Analysis Background Around 26 August 2015, Forbes reported that Netflix was moving away from using antivirus on their internal workstations. This quickly trended across …
Star Wars Cyber Security Parallels
Star Wars Cyber Security Parallels DISCLAIMER: This blog post is not endorsed by Disney, George Lucas, or LucasFilms. Star Wars, the characters, and scenarios are Star Wars: TM & …
Breakdown in Effective Security Policy
The Breakdown in Effective Security Policy One of the biggest causes of security breaches in business is a breakdown in the effective security “policy and strategy that is typically created …
225,000 Jailbroken iPhones Hacked!
225,000 Jailbroken iPhones Hacked! Sequence of Events of 225,000 Jailbroken iPhones Hacked July 2015 Per Forbes, Chinese Tech and Apple Enthusiast Group WeipTech “began investigating reports that some users’ Apple …
Ashley Madison Data Breach
Our Initial Presentation about the Ashley Madison Data Breach DISCLAIMER: The purpose of this blog post is NOT to discuss the morality of Ashley Madison (AM)/Established Gentleman (EM)/Avid Life Media …
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