Mustafa Al Shalchi

An omission on my part, adding blue light to special integrated retailer 🙂

POS Fatigued Yet? The latest point-of-sale (POS) breach victim is our blue special integrated retailer, Kmart.

Sears Holding Co.(Sears) released late last Friday that their subsidiary, Kmart suffered a malware based credit card breach; Sears confirmed that they recently discovered that point-of-sale registers at its Kmart stores were…[Read more]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally released guidance to medical device manufacturers to help manage cyber security risks. Although much of the issues that consumers were being educated on, the medical devise industry has been moving at a snail pace in their reaction to the security of medical device hardware, software,…[Read more]

Per our topic focused presentation last night on Shellshock, I wanted to provide you with the following mitigation steps that need to be taken:

regUpgrade all Unix-related software to versions that patch the Bash flaw, or else employ temporary workarounds;

Comb the enterprise for every device that runs – or relies on an embedded version of…[Read more]

Hello, per our conversation related to disconnecting your self from companies, marketers, web crawlers, traffic analytics, etc…, please consider installing this helpful feature called Disconnect; you can add it to your DESKTOP, IOS and ANDROID.

Here is the link, https://disconnect.me/

You can block upwards of 2,000+ tracking sites, load…[Read more]

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Although not required, I think this new news article is important to all.

Last Thursday, a new bug emerged called “Shellshock”. Basically the name give away its connection with Unix Shell which many Linux as wel…[Read more]

If you would like to access Vacca 2009 & 2013 below for free, please see links below:
> 2009 Version:
LIBRARY.TEMPLE.EDU -> SUMMONS TAB -> Type Your > Selection In The -> Text Box / Or Click Below:-
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Key Points

 Vacca Chapter 24: Information Technology Security Management
Setting information security policies and procedures along with responsible and accountable line management and personnel are essential for implementing IT security management program within an enterprise; however, strong senior management (tone from the top) and s…[Read more]

If black hat or a red team can bypass best defense-in-depth security products…how secure of an end-user are you?

Only 94% of the time…according to the article. This is an article that I found on SC Magazine this week and I wanted to share with you.

Startling statistics considering the amount of resources poured into automated defense…[Read more]

Thanks.

There were many articles that peeked my interest and wanted to share with you, but this one was particularly interesting.

Espionage agencies from Australian Signals Directorate partnered with British, American and Singaporean intelligence agencies to tap these undersea fiber optic telecommunications cables that link Asia, the Middle East and…[Read more]

Please see the key points from readings.

Chapters 22:
1. Creating and maintaining a holistic security management culture within a given organization will require a thorough review of starting points; for example, having formalized policies and up-to date business and IT processes are critical to an organization that want to fully analyze…[Read more]

Hello, per this week’s readings:
Text Book Chapter 14 Chapter 14: Local Area Network Security
1.We have outgrown the legacy systems of the past, e.g. Mainframe, etc. Now LANs make up a significant part of most mature business organizations, institutions, or states, etc..
2.Although many advancement were made by moving into new network t…[Read more]

Adding link to traffic vulnerabilities: http://www.scmagazine.com/sensys-networks-releases-updates-to-address-vehicle-traffic-sensor-vulnerabilities/article/370595/

Hello everyone, I found this an interesting article that may concern you if you have subscribed for the affordable care act (commonly referred to as Obamacare)…HealthCare.gov Server Hacked!

Human and Health Services (HHS) has stated that “No Consumer Data Exposed in Intrusion”.

What appeared to have happened is that Hackers uploaded…[Read more]