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A related article that came out today: Prolexic warns of spike in DrDoS(Distributed Reflection and Amplification Denial of Service ) attacks
Common networked devices: routers, hubs, printers, cameras, and sensors […]

How to Report a DDoS Attack on the ICANN Blog (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
“While ICANN’s role in mitigating these threats is limited, the Security Team offers these insights to raise […]

In the News: Letter from PayPal Information Risk Management to Chairman of the Board of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers: There appears to be anticipation that the introduction of new Internet […]

Vaca’ chapters 24-27, and the two SANS articles on Open/Closed Public Key and Cyrptographic Hash Functions: The readings left me pondering the complexity of “trust” in working with distributed certificate […]

Interesting information, wonderfully presented. Thank you!

Vaca Readings: A SAN can be critical infrastructure for facilitating efficient business continuity through centralized data management and protection. Like any critical IT resource, it needs to be planned and […]

News of the Week: Why Watering Hole Attacks Work
I found this item as I drilled down into news about the IE patches Microsoft is providing this week in part to address “…the series of watering hole attacks […]

Vaca: This week’s readings covered a number of topics pertaining to the nature, benefits, and tradeoffs offered by alternative architectures and approaches to establish, leverage, and consolidate digital […]

News of the Week: I found reference to this item on AusCERT Week in Review, discussing efforts of Sophos, a data security provider, to bring attention to a Javascript vulnerability recently highlighted by a web […]

Vaca: This week’s readings provided a wide range of vulnerabilities and controls affecting IT Networks, Unix and Linux operating systems, Internet, intranets, LANS, Wireless networks, Cellular networks, […]

In the News: After reading Vaca’s Chapter 12 on Cellular Network Security I reflected on the fragility of our phone system, and came across an article by author of KrebsOnSecurity describing how he became the […]

PS: There appears to be something wrong with the system clock as it actually is now 6:02pm

David Lanter = tue87168

In the News: “Use of Cloud for Disaster Recovery, Backup and Desktop Set to Rise”

Article reports on a tudy of ~1300 IT professionals, and indicates adoption of Cloud Computing for Disaster Recovery (DR) is […]

Vaca: Chapter 38 – Homeland Security. As I read our assignment I wondered what the US Federal Government’s Recovery Time Objective (RTO) was. On page 667-669 the chapter’s authors list a series of Homeland […]

In the News: “Yahoo’s CEO Checked VPN logs before work-from-home ban”
While the article did not mention IT Risk as a motivator to Marissa Mayer’s review of Yahoo’s VPN logs, it is clear that the CEO’s new policy […]

Readings:
SANS Reading Room Article “Implementing Physical Security – A Lord of the Rings”: An increasing number of IT workers are accessing their organization’s network remotely and engaging in flex-time and […]

In the article: “The Myth of Secure Computing” (Austin, R.D. and A.R. Arby, 2003), the authors recognize and explain why digital security is at the bottom of the priority list of most business executives, and […]

News of the Day: Kevin Liston, in his SANS Internet Storm Center (isc.sans.edu) article: discusses the guidance he provided last week in response to: “My computer is acting strangely, do you think I have a virus?” […]

The two SANS institutute InfoSec Reading Room articles assigned this week provide practical recommendations for implementing security awareness training programs. John Vaca, on the other hand, indicates that the […]