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Christie L Vazquez changed their profile picture 6 years, 2 months ago
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Christie L Vazquez changed their profile picture 6 years, 2 months ago
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 6 years, 6 months ago
Additional vulnerabilities in Intel’s chip. Same design flaw as Spectre. As the industry finds more vulnerabilities, chip makers do not know if the patches will cause performance issues.
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 6 years, 6 months ago
Microsoft released an out of band emergency patch last week for a vulnerability in its Windows Host Compute Service. The vulnerability allows an attacker to remotely execute code on the victim’s host machine.
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 6 years, 7 months ago
Cyber attack against a pipeline company. Although only impacting data transfers, their stock price dropped 2.5% due to the news of the attack.
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 6 years, 7 months ago
A new vulnerability affecting WIN2012, 2016 and 2008, WIN 10, 8 and 7 allows remote attackers to steal sensitive. Not only do you need to be suspicious of giving access to your computer and a of the person’s m […]
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 6 years, 7 months ago
A recent Forbes article mentions 68% of senior IT professions do not think their boards are being briefed on mitigating controls for cyber risks. I was surprised by the percentage. Either companies are not […]
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That’s quite interesting Christie to see this percentage, though I still doubt this to be far lesser, considering that most senior level professionals in organizations do have a keen knack of latest security standards in IT Infrastructure. I see that many companies fail to implement cyber standards either because of cost factors or because of unwillingness to change the existing systems in place. This is bad and I think more than implementation, senior IT professionals should be trained well on the pros and cons of mitigating controls for cyber risks
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 6 years, 8 months ago
This article details an attack on an IoT device. Similar to the kill chain, the attacker follows a recon, development, execution and command and control phase. Reminds the vulnerabilities with IoTs supporting […]
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 6 years, 8 months ago
The article introduces a few best practices, according to Forrester Research, to help reduce the gender gap in the cybersecurity field.
Women represent 15- 20% of the industry. However that includes risk […]
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 6 years, 8 months ago
Companies in the UK that fail to protect themselves effectively from hackers could be fined up to £17m.
The UK government is cracking down on cyber malpractice. The article states if companies fail to protect […]
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In the US too, companies need to be E-ready for their own safety in case of litigation.
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking 6 years, 11 months ago
Another NSA tool leaked. Although this one never made it to implementation and it was never fully deployed in the field. It was designed to be a intelligence sharing application.
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking 6 years, 11 months ago
A newly discovered banking Trojan called IcedID looks monitors online activity. It sets up a local proxy and intercepts traffic, sounds like something we learned in class!
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking 6 years, 12 months ago
A good area where AI, and machine learning will help the cyber industry. Information is critical to an IT organization especially during an incident. With unstructured data, data that is not in their SIEMs, it is […]
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking 7 years ago
Cyber criminals are getting a ROI, re-using phishing kits. Brings up the question, why aren’t monitoring tools picking these up before they are delivered to a user’s inbox.
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking 7 years ago
A new IoT Botnet, compared to Mirai. Called “IoT_reaper” was first reported in September.
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking 7 years ago
Interesting malware, DoubleLocker, can reset your PIN and encrypts your data. Interesting that is does both.
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking 7 years ago
Malware as a service is becoming more popular, a keystroke capturing and password stealing program is available for purchase.
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Christie L Vazquez commented on the post, Behind-the-Scenes Cryptocurrency Mining Discovered on Showtime Sites, on the site 7 years, 1 month ago
Hi Donald, great article!
Recently China, the US and South Korea banned using cryptocurrencies as funds to start a company. It will be interesting to see what regulations follow….I wonder if the subscribers whose CPU cycles were used will be reimbursed if their resources mined any coins!
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Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking 7 years, 1 month ago
Interesting article where Apache strikes back against the Equifax breach being caused by a vulnerability in their framework.
They note no one at the @equifax domain has been in contact with them, insinuating […]
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Very interesting article, for me it particularly shed more light on the continuing issues with Equifax’s response in recent weeks. Last week, I went on to their site and and typed my last six ssn digits to see if I was affected, and just as the article pointed out, it took almost no time to bring up a message telling me that I may have been affected and offering me the free “TrustedID Premier.” I looked into what other people were saying about it and decided not to sign up. This coupled with the fact that executives may have sold their shares directly following the incident signifies gross mismanagement if not illegal actions on the part of Equifax both before and after the incident.
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I agree with Matt. I think it gave a lot more information on the current situation. Also I have heard that apache has been an issue in the past. It is interesting that even with it being such a known issue people still seem to neglect it.
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Christie L Vazquez posted a new activity comment 7 years, 1 month ago
Hi Matt, thanks for posting! Quite a few home model routers listed as impacted by this vulnerability!
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