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Kacper Rams commented on the post, Week 13 Materials Posted, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
Hack on Sony
The latest hack on Sony brings a lot of debate in regards to true attacker. A lot of sources blame North Korea for the attacks; it is a sort of repayment for upcoming new movie “Interview” that talks about North Korea and its leader. Most recent breach leaked details information such as: salary and medical information of more than…[Read more] -
Kacper Rams commented on the post, Week 12 Materials Posted, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
SANS Assignment 6 and 7
An Overview of Cryptographic Hash Functions and Their Uses
Hash is only a one way function and it impossible to determine the input knowing only the output. The cryptographic hash creates a unique message digest for each message, if message changes, the also hash changes. This function help in detecting when message was…[Read more] -
Kacper Rams commented on the post, Week 11 Materials Posted, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
United States Postal Service Hacked
On Monday the media release the information that the USPS was hacked, leaking around 800,000 employee PII and also information on customers that contacted Service Customer Care Center via phone or e-mail between Jan. 1 and Aug. 16. The attack was discovered in mid-September and disclosed 2 months later because…[Read more] -
Kacper Rams commented on the post, Week 10 Materials Posted, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
SANS Assignment #4 Assessing Vendor Application Security A Practical Way to Begin
The paper points out 7 steps to comprehensively assess vendor’s application; they include:
Well defined policies – High-level governance that clearly presents management expectation
General architecture of OS/Presentation/Data/Application
Network communications (…[Read more] -
Kacper Rams commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, March 22, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
Islamic State Breaks through Rugby Website’s Defenses
On November 3rd, website of West Yorkshire team was breached and displayed pictures of war planes and injured people accompanied by message: “warplanes of making America”. The news also report that at some point the website was displaying: “I love you ISIS”. Breach of this website lead to d…[Read more] -
Kacper Rams commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, March 1, on the site 10 years ago
In the news article
On October 25th, 2014 it was reported that due to insecure storage of customer sensitive and confidential information by firm Vcare, almost 305,000 customers were affected. The ‘breach’ occurred from September 2012 until late April 2013 and was detected in early 2013.Telecommunication companies that were using Vcare ser…[Read more] -
Kacper Rams commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 16, on the site 10 years ago
Microsoft Vulnerability
Researches from Google and McAfee discovered vulnerability in the Microsoft system that can be exploited by malicious PowerPoint documents. Because the latest patch for Sandworm was not properly implemented, the hackers were able to discover new vulnerability.
Currently this kind of malicious attacks were performed by…[Read more] -
Kacper Rams commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 16, on the site 10 years ago
SANS Assignment#3 – Implementing Robust Physical Security
Physical security is the first line of defense against IT intrusion, without appropriate physical controls, even best logical access controls will not protect IT infrastructure from the breach. Robust physical security should consider environmental factors, human factors and be prepare to…[Read more] -
Kacper Rams commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 10 years, 1 month ago
In the news
New codecs of war
NSA’s agency director Michael Rodger emphasizes a need for stricter and clearer regulation of cyberspace and the crimes committed there. Because cyberspace becomes more than just a “cyberspace” and can be compared to geographical space as it also contains valuable assets. Michael Rodger states that there is a need…[Read more] -
Kacper Rams commented on the post, Week 4 Materials Posted, on the site 10 years, 1 month ago
In the news
Increase in institutionalize funding for cyber security professionals. Universities and states are increasing funding for programs that will train experts in cyber security field. As recent data breaches indicate, the cyber security becomes a greater concern, not only to business, but also states and governments. It is important to…[Read more] -
Kacper Rams commented on the post, Week 3 Materials Posted, on the site 10 years, 1 month ago
In the news story
Bloomberg recently posted an article on “Data Breaches in the U.S.” which present top 10 breaches of personal records as well as its cause. Last class we were talking about different risks, threat and vulnerabilities each company can face. As each company has its own ecosystem and operations, one thing is the same for all of…[Read more] -
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Kacper Rams commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 22, on the site 10 years, 1 month ago
Reading response
This week readings were focused on high-level view on enterprise risk environment. Vacca’s Chapter 1 gave some insight into trade-off between security and productivity, showing that controls should balance them out. The Risk IT framework described that in current days, there is a need to look at the IT Risk holistically and as a…[Read more] -
Kacper Rams commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 22, on the site 10 years, 1 month ago
In the news story
Couple days ago the Home Depot chain that has 2,200 stores in the US, Canada and Mexico. Some believe that this breach might be even bigger than the Target breach that costed them $148 million. The breach again involved the credit card information that were being published on black market site associated with Lampeduza Republic…[Read more] -
Kacper Rams 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
Worm “The Moon”
The attacks were reported on February 13th by the researcher from SANS Institute; the worm was named “The Moon” because it included images from the movie “The Moon”. More than 1,000 devices has […]
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Kacper Rams 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
Hackers use refrigerator in cyber attack
On January 20th, first time ever the Proofpoint, a digital security firm, reported the cyber attack that used refrigerator as a medium to spread the malicious activity – […]
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