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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Week 12 Materials Posted, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
Windows phone 8.1 hacked. Just weeks after Microsoft announced a 19 year-old critical security hole existed in almost every version of windows OS, developer have discovered a vulnerability on the new phone using this vulnerability and it could be easily exploited.
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Week 11 Materials Posted, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
SANS 4: Assessing Vendor Application Security is a very important step to make sure that the information is being protected. Some of the steps include application architecture, network communication, authentication, etc.
SANS 5: Every organization needs to have a good change management process. Part of this process is performing vulnerability…[Read more] -
Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Week 11 Materials Posted, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
HSBC Turkish said that it lost 2.7 million customer’s bank data in a cyber attack. This hack resulted in the theft of data on cards and related bank accounts. This breach is only limited to Turkey. No other branch has reported an attack. HSBC Turkey is working with different parties to investigate the leak. Turkish unit of HSBC had a lost of $18…[Read more]
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, March 15, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
This week’s readings are about network security. They mainly talk about why cryptography, encryption, and integrity is needed anytime that sensitive data will be transmitted. In addition, in goes into detail about different types of network topologies, and it also talks about LAN & WAN.
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, March 1, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS) has potentially being breached. Nearly 44,000 retirees may have had their personal data compromised. The problem began in September when the system sent 2 unencrypted computer discs which contained people’s first and last name and their SSN of member enrolled in the dental plans to a benefits company. Those…[Read more]
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Here's a place for week 9 articles, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
Article: FCC Slaps Telecos With $10M Fine for Data Breaches
FCC just fined two companies in the US, the reason: “for not properly securing information for 305,000 consumers.” -
Andrea Blanco commented on the post, NIST 800 60 V1R1 Guide for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security Categories, on the site 10 years ago
MSN ceritificate
Valid: 10/27/2008 to 2/9/2017
Hash Algorithm: sha1
Thumbprint certificate: 5a 2b c5 7b 0d a9 47 f8 67 d2 0a dc e5 58 2d ce 8a 06 14 9e -
Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 16, on the site 10 years ago
This week reading: Physical security is very important. Having the right systems and the right people in place to secure a specific environment is critical for a company to avoid a data breach.
Article: A new vulnerability has been discovered this week called Poodle. It was discovered by Google and it makes ssl sites more vulnerables to attack.…[Read more]
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, NIST 800 60 V1R1 Guide for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security Categories, on the site 10 years ago
Mi article specifically talks about how salesforce uses security. It gives an example of how the company uses MD5 and hash function to secure its data exchange within the cloud. http://goo.gl/MYY3r
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 10 years ago
My article this week is about Yahoo and that it was hacked. Apparently the hackers accessed through the Shellshock vulnerability. However, they announced yesterday that the hackers accessed through server flaw. ” They found no evidence that the attackers compromised any other machines or that any user data was…[Read more]
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 10 years ago
This week’s reading were about Security Training. Companies now are becoming aware that their biggest threat are employees. Training about security is crucial to reduce the likelihood of getting hack. Most companies train their employees once or twice a year or even more, depending on what type of business they are in.
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 10 years ago
http://goo.gl/DkR0B2 – Link to article
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 10 years ago
My article is about the home depot breach. It specifically talks how the breach could have been potentially avoided because some Home Depot contractors made recommendations after two smaller hacks were reported few months before the biggest breach. These recommendations was to activate the intrusion protection feature on their symentic End Point.…[Read more]
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Week 4 Materials Posted, on the site 10 years, 1 month ago
Temple reported a health data breach. During a break-in of a Temple University physician office an unencrypted desktop computer was stolen. 3,780 patients records were stolen, including name, age, billing codes, and the referring physician; this information could be used for identity theft. The files that were leaked did not contain financial data…[Read more]
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Week 3 Materials Posted, on the site 10 years, 1 month ago
Vacca’s Chp 14: Talks about CISSP and ISO, and gives details in how each can help an organization. It also gives information about threats variability and risks.
ISO 27001 article: gives an overview of the different types of data classification based on its standards. Companies can refer to it and make decisions regarding data classification. -
Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Week 3 Materials Posted, on the site 10 years, 1 month ago
Goodwill confirmed that C&K Systems, which is its third party vendor, was compromised in a data breach and 860,000 credit cards were compromised in 330 stores. This third party vendor manages and deploys cloud-based retail POS environments for smalls and medium size retailers. A malware was installed on C&K systems and exposed names and cards…[Read more]
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, NIST 800 60 V1R1 Guide for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security Categories, on the site 10 years, 1 month ago
On the News: JP Morgan data breach.
Few weeks ago JP Morgan was hacked. The hackers used a global network of computers available for hire to reroute the stolen data from the bank to a large Russian city. Using a computer network staging ground, the hackers took over computer systems around the world. The hackers sent different commands and tried…[Read more] -
Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Current Affairs Topics Discussion for 14 April, on the site CYBER SECURITY: BUSINESS STRATEGY AND CYBER BATTLES 10 years, 6 months ago
40% of South Koreans got their credit card stolen:
Three banks were attack in South Korea and personal and financial data of at least 20 million credit card users were stolen by an employee. This employee […]
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Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Current Affairs Topics Discussion for 14 April, on the site CYBER SECURITY: BUSINESS STRATEGY AND CYBER BATTLES 10 years, 6 months ago
A 5 year old hacks Xbox account:
At the beginning of April in California, Kristoffer Von Hassel, a five year old boy found a way to access his dad’s Xbox One account. He was playing games that he wasn’t supposed […] -
Andrea Blanco commented on the post, Q&A: Final thoughts (100 section reflection on the course), on the site Internet and Supply Chains – MIS 3537 Spring 2013 11 years, 5 months ago
Being a double major in Finance and MIS, this class helped me understand the different factors that affect production, manufacturing, procurement, etc. Also, now I understand the bullwhip effect and why a lot of […]
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