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 …

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 …

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 …

You can’t make this stuff up. It really would be interesting to know who’s behind the Sony Breach.

Seriously.  Could you even make these stories up? Sony comes clean.  They admit that 77 million records were compromised. In …

Do Not Assume Your Shopping Carts are Secure

…some of the major shopping cart providers, Amazon, Google and Paypal have software flaws