Temple MIS | Christie L Vazquez | Activity https://community.mis.temple.edu/members/christie-l-vazquez/activity/ Activity feed for Christie L Vazquez. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:47:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 e096262604c63bddd1b8dd7a55ed99f9 Christie L Vazquez changed their profile picture https://community.mis.temple.edu/activity/p/190339/ Sun, 19 Aug 2018 19:53:00 -0400 0 3265fbfa66f0f82ab232775017b332b1 Christie L Vazquez changed their profile picture https://community.mis.temple.edu/activity/p/190338/ Sun, 19 Aug 2018 19:26:29 -0400 0 113cecc1ab09a4daff244c2f451896de Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018/?p=3877 Sun, 06 May 2018 14:43:19 -0400 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.

]]> 0 d9d68d81e905b9707de11fe7551e601a Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018/?p=3874 Sun, 06 May 2018 14:37:26 -0400 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.

]]> 0 c7c64ea38a66805fce57f52d7c7b57dd Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018/?p=3777 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 23:21:24 -0400 Cyber attack against a pipeline company. Although only impacting data transfers, their stock price dropped 2.5% due to the news of the attack.

]]> 0 fabb9b3a6dd717cc8007f6211899ac34 Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018/?p=3764 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:50:06 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0 51efb9eb6087097292b32a55f29ad1f6 Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018/?p=3744 Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:05:45 -0400 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 […]

]]> 1 898d1d894c2fad1b069ca5e267dba5df Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018/?p=3667 Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:00:20 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 4e8271712e8b473b1bc27b1b63c2cbb3 Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018/?p=3662 Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:17:31 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 899e3ebf8be2ce9ed2240b42b99a0ad7 Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018/?p=3612 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 17:28:10 -0500 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 […]

]]> 1 b3b2ae6d1eb44500dab04e2093ed6dfa Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/?p=5091 Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:23:11 -0500 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.

]]> 0 f312f147e1ab6811721c848af542500d Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/?p=4950 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 23:24:33 -0500 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!

]]> 0 c303e0d239f46b70099835a06b92f8c8 Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/?p=4896 Sun, 05 Nov 2017 20:56:03 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 d5ae786c20ac6f7a8c059e1a4090b5f0 Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/?p=4855 Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:43:45 -0400 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.

]]> 0 b4e1afc8c8ccbd4553848106628ce832 Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/?p=4786 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 00:02:43 -0400 A new IoT Botnet, compared to Mirai. Called “IoT_reaper” was first reported in September.

]]> 0 652a63aa1980a42abe5c075e9a161a6c Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/?p=4762 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:37:25 -0400 Interesting malware, DoubleLocker, can reset your PIN and encrypts your data. Interesting that is does both.

]]> 0 0ce47b15ab723efa1df3928573a0fcd6 Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/?p=4697 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:03:29 -0400 Malware as a service is becoming more popular, a keystroke capturing and password stealing program is available for purchase.

]]> 0 70b40f759cb61a27fed0313fba4c7f13 Christie L Vazquez posted a new activity comment http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/2017/09/30/behind-the-scenes-cryptocurrency-mining-discovered-on-showtime-sites/#comment-692 Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:19:18 -0400 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!

In reply to - Donald Hoxhaj wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking Behind-the-Scenes Cryptocurrency Mining Discovered on Showtime Sites This article talks about the following: Showtime is a […] ]]> 4d51f343fbb93d442fb937300e0db083 Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/?p=4656 Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:08:08 -0400 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 […]

]]> 2 d5e4edc4d8ed1858ca76ba6e4378c524 Christie L Vazquez posted a new activity comment http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/2017/09/24/routex-malware-found-exploiting-netgear-routers/#comment-680 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:59:46 -0400 Hi Matt, thanks for posting! Quite a few home model routers listed as impacted by this vulnerability!

In reply to - Matt Roberts wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking Recently, a vulnerability was discovered in the remote command and execution function of Netgear routers. Malware known as […] ]]> 13ff7c7687815ec0c33f849b6a3165ab Christie L Vazquez wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/?p=4607 Sun, 24 Sep 2017 18:19:43 -0400 I thought this article was timely, considering we are reviewing a company’s footprint. The author states security vulnerabilities come from three places, code quality, complexity and overly trusting data i […]

]]> 0 9f6ff6dd3280408ea4b53c3e88a9fc69 Christie L Vazquez posted a new activity comment http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/2017/09/12/week-3-presentation/#comment-655 Sun, 17 Sep 2017 21:43:43 -0400 @Ian, good catch! And yeah very strange. You would think Vevo would know that..

In reply to - Wade Mackey wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking Intro-to-Ethical-Hacking-Week-3 ]]> c9eb7aa23daa6c7670ef15a0ff2c2c32 Christie L Vazquez posted a new activity comment http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/2017/09/12/week-3-presentation/#comment-653 Sun, 17 Sep 2017 12:59:08 -0400 @Andres, thanks for sharing! I have a hard time following articles on reddit but it is a great source of information.

My article: http://thehackernews.com/2017/09/vevo-music-video-hacked.html

Hacker group OurMine hacked Vevo and then leaked the data. They call themselves white hackers, which I would disagree. Releasing data is something a…[Read more]

In reply to - Wade Mackey wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking Intro-to-Ethical-Hacking-Week-3 ]]> b514004fa7b71b56b35a0e4c11be23a7 Christie L Vazquez posted a new activity comment http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/2017/09/06/week-2-presentation/#comment-618 Sat, 09 Sep 2017 18:22:20 -0400 In the News
A term I heard this year at the RSA conference in San Francisco was “Cyber Malpractice”. The speaker stated companies that do not put controls in place to prevent cyber attacks are committing cyber malpractice and their customer’s should hold them accountable if their data is compromised.

A judge ruled this week that did suffer an…[Read more]

In reply to - Wade Mackey wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking Intro to Ethical Hacking Week 2 ]]> 4b9020e4b150af0dbc89496d41556982 Christie L Vazquez posted a new activity comment http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5211sec001fall17/2017/08/31/hacking-article/#comment-614 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:44:25 -0400 I do not think this incident was the result of a hack. Instead it was a phishing attack using social engineering to commit fraud.

A hacker explores the differences of how something is designed to work and how it can work. A hack is us using a computer system to gain unauthorized access to a system.

A hacker committed the attack but did not…[Read more]

In reply to - Wade Mackey wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking Just to kick things off.  Here’s an article I noted today describing scammers using phishing techniques netted 11 million […] ]]> b16a02e933329e082b21dbb5208006dd Christie L Vazquez posted a new activity comment http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5121beaver2016/2016/02/09/100-second-reflection-week-4/#comment-30 Sun, 14 Feb 2016 15:55:53 -0500 Last week I learned the importance of controls during the order to cash process. From credit checks to segregation of duties when it comes to limiting who can access the price data. It is critical to ensure automated and manual controls are in place as the order to cash process provides many opportunities to commit fraud.

In reply to - Edward N Beaver wrote a new post on the site ERP Systems MIS 5121 – Spring 2016 Think for 100 seconds, and summarize the key things that you learned in the class this past week. ]]> 4090b229241880c420c734e6e54a4796 Christie L Vazquez changed their profile picture https://community.mis.temple.edu/activity/p/123081/ Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:34:13 -0400 0