Patrick DeStefano (tuc50677)

This vulnerability with pacemakers really got me thinking. What other types of technology has been developed and is still in production today which doesn’t have the ability to have updates pushed and may have antiquated security vulnerabilities present? I’m sure there are tons of iot devices which were developed throughout the years before…[Read more]

Satwika,

I agree with everything you mentioned. One of the biggest vulnerabilities I’m seeing in society today is that there is literally half of the population from a generation that didn’t have anywhere near the amount of technology we have today when they were growing up. This is leading to a large amount of the population being…[Read more]

Hi Frederic,

I’m in complete agreement with your assessment. While automation is becoming more and more popular to increase efficiency and reliability for executing processes for companies to do good, it also has the same perks for those who wish to do harm. There’s no way a fraudster or hacker can take over millions of devices like the…[Read more]

It’s really one of those “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situations for businesses today. On one hand, if you have a minor security breach and are transparent about it, it’s quite possible that the media will pick it up and over-hype it and that will cause reputational harm that you were hacked, even if you fixed it and were transparent…[Read more]

Here is the link to the SANS portion: https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/February+2018+Microsoft+and+Adobe+Patch+Tuesday/23341/

I too, like how they list the update out. Its quite concerning that these are such serious security flaws/bugs which are getting patched. It’s really making me rethink whether I want Auto-update on for my…[Read more]

It’s really frustrating when this kind of thing happens as a customer perspective. I know if I was a client of Newtek’s, I would expect transparency for things like this breach. Even if they didn’t know what was going on or how to fix it, I would appreciate an email or message stating that there is an incident and that they are looking into it.…[Read more]

I’m going to assume that it was just lack of knowledge that led these ATM owners/operators to believe that keeping an old ATM without updating the software was perfectly fine. It honestly terrifies me considering that our financial institutions and devices should be one of the most secure things out there but these devices hadn’t had software…[Read more]

I found it really interesting, well actually surprised, that these ATMs were still running Windows XP. Microsoft released this OS in 2001, roughly 17 years ago! They stopped supporting updates for it in 2014, so these machines hadn’t had any security updates or patches in at least 4 years. That’s really a scary thought considering that these…[Read more]

Wow, I’m going to have to check these out and look more into what PowerShell is capable of. I’m more of a beginner with PowerShell and after several software installation issues, I didn’t have enough time or focusing capability after a long day at work to really dig deep into all that PowerShell can do.

I feel like with removing these it can…[Read more]

Nevermind everyone, I think I figured it out.

Hey All, Is anyone else having issues with getting the PowerShell setup? I’m following the video from Box, but for my virtual machine, whenever I run the setup file, it’s showing the following messages.

‘vmware-hostShared FoldersWindows_LinkedPS_WU_Setup’
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
UNC paths are not…[Read more]

This is very very dangerous. If any enemy plotters were to get ahold of this info and be able to put two and two together, it would essentially be like handing over the blueprints to our military installations, safe-houses, and even if you look deeper, you might even be able to track movement on ships and/or submarines to get a layout. For…[Read more]

The scenario you listed is a real risk, like you said, with today’s trigger happy world. News pundits, politicians, and conspiracy theorists with power could really bring the world to it’s knees if any mischaracterization of a specific attack occurs. I’m particularly worried of consequences if something like this would happen to the US and it…[Read more]

I honestly had no idea about VirusTotal until I read this article. It seems like it is an extremely useful product for all of the security community and beyond. I’m actually going to try using it to see how it works over the next few days. To your point about the startups which seem to provide services to those wishing to do harm, I…[Read more]

Thanks Duy! I’ll have to give them a call tomorrow.

I’m having an issue where it says my account is expired and unable to download VMware, but not having the issue with Windows.

Although, I’m not finding any links to download Windows 7. The only things I’m seeing are for Windows 10.