Nelson Ocampo

In the News:

I thought this was quite ironic: Department of Homeland Security website Hacked by Anonymous
http://rt.com/usa/homeland-security-website-anonymous-473/

Week 8 readings are about preparedness/readiness and testing. What I learned from the readings is the importance of people’s roles during the response and recovery phase. There should be a document of who the […]

Go to Vegas in August and feel the 110F temperature and see how long you can stay outside 🙂

Here is an example of a “sound level” monitor email alert in a data center. The alert was triggered when the sound level exceed the threshold of 90 dB.
[90 – 95dB Level at which sustained exposure may result in […]

SAN reading – Implementing Robust Physical Security

I like the idea of cross referencing the IT network activity and physical activity. The employees whereabouts or building entry time can be correlated to […]

In the news:

These articles are a few years old but still very relevant with regards to our class discussions.
Some of the thefts mentioned in the article sound like were committed by professional […]

IMHO, the most sophisticated preventive software and hardware and you policies and procedures can be thrown in the mix are no match from one careless or uninformed employee’s mouse clicks.

HBR: The Myth of Secure Computing

The 8 processes discussed by HBR are helpful guidelines for companies to get a good understanding of their IT systems which I think correlates with the key components of risk […]

2012 Global Losses From Phishing Estimated At $1.5 Billion
Phishing now targets smartphone, mobile apps, social media…

http://biztech2.in.com/news/security/2012-global-losses-from-phishing-estimated-at-$15-bn/154212/0

On the “manual” credit card swipe machine.

The SANS readings stress the importance of network security awareness and training which are effective ways to protect the business entity.However, even with all the sophisticated network equipment in place […]

In High-Tech Japan, the Fax Machines Roll On

An interesting article about the fax being popular in Japan.
Almost 100% of business offices have fax machines and remains an essential tool for doing […]

Security in the infrastructure. I think the first step is to assess which assets are critical and should be protected and determine the level of security measures. This will vary from industry to industry but […]

Major Wireless Network Security Breach – Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS Bug) PIN Brute Force Vulnerability – Reaver

WiFi Protected Set-up is a protocol that allows users to press a button on the wi-fi router to […]

Piggy riding on your article…

Modern cameras and smart phones not only embed camera meta data in the pictures but the geotags as well which provides the coordinates of the location.where the picture was […]

What is your impression of Kevin Mitnick?

Chapter 14 discusses the security management in a enterprise, the security essentials, threats, attacks, risks, incident response and many other security related measures to protect, mitigate and recover. The […]

The points determine the level (expertise) of the poker player. Much like in video games the ranks are established based on how many points the player has accumulated in the game,i.e.,beginner to expert.

In […]

PokerAgent botnet stealing over 16,000 Facebook credentials.

Be careful when installing FB apps.
This is seen to be most active in Israel. It was written in C# which is easy to decompile and that is how the […]

For the utmost critical environment, a disk less, no external devices (USB, CD-ROM, flash drive, MP3, iPad..etc…), non-wifi, non fire-wire workstation will help reduce security threats. On the application side, […]