Health Technology Forum: March 6, 2013, 6pm. Panel on Security in Healthcare.

    Health Technology Forum Dallas/Fort Worth Meetup The monthly events are hosted by IBM at their Innovation Center in Dallas …

U.S. government warns of hack threat to network gear

The problem stems from a feature called uPnP which was conceived and designed to increase interoperability and compatibility between devices found in a network.

Please change your linkedin passwords now. I mean right now.

LI confirms that “some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts.” Please change your linkedin passwords now. …

Does HIPAA / HITECH Require Strong Passwords? No, But It’s Expected.

This is a very succinct summary of what HIPAA/HITECH require in terms of passwords and encryption from AlertBoot Endpoint Security. Does HIPAA …

FBI reminds you to be wary of online fraud this holiday season

Scammers use many techniques to fool potential victims…

Latest Infosec Controversy Highlights the Real Issue: We are Getting Hacked.

And yet the controversy only highlights the real issue: we are getting hacked every day in attacks that span the entire spectrum of sophistication.

Do Criminals have your ATM Card number and PIN? Skimming is big business in Dallas and Austin.

I recently read “Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground”(Google Books Preview, Library, Amazon), a well-written and …

What version of TLS are your servers using?

A new hacking tool called BEAST cracks TLS 1.0/ SSL in under 10 minutes. The attack is very specific and …

Next breach victim: citibank.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7580TM20110609?irpc=932

Researcher finds new security flaws in SCADA PLC systems, decides not to expose them at TakeDownCon.

In a blog post today at nsslabs.com, NSS CEO Rick Moy lauded the infosec acumen of researcher Dillon Beresford, saying …