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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 2 Update, on the site 5 years, 10 months ago
I thought this was a pretty good article too. I always love new products and services that companies like google and apple come out with. They take ideas others had a formalize it into a worthy product (most of the time). I can’t wait to see when Chronicle is out and how it’s going to use virus total and AI to give us an enhanced security tool…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 2 Update, on the site 5 years, 10 months ago
As security professionals that is in the industry or going to join the industry, we should always keep this in mind and drive vendors and product owners to stop hard-coding passwords in to their products. For example, I used to work for Comcast in my previous life and we would work with vendors for some of the hardware we would use in our…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 4 Update, on the site 5 years, 10 months ago
This sounds like something that would happen in Mission Impossible or in James Bond but working in the Defense industry this is definitely a real concern. Even if your working in a SCIF, they don’t want you to bring any technology, cell phones, laptops, pager, etc to avoid issues like this. Only the approved systems that are in that room are…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 14 Update, on the site 6 years, 5 months ago
Microsoft is now building its’ own Linux OS for IoT devices. They are focusing on protecting microcontroller-based IoT devices, including smart appliances, connected toys, and other smart gadgets,
“Azure Sphere provides security that starts in the hardware and extends to the cloud, delivering holistic security that protects, detects, and…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 13 Update, on the site 6 years, 6 months ago
Similarities between these two operating systems:
Both Windows and Linux Operating systems have the concept of privileged users. In case of Linux it’s a root user and it the case of Windows its and Administrator.
For security, Windows uses Access Control Lists and Linux uses the concept or read/write/executable permissions.
Both W…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 13 Update, on the site 6 years, 6 months ago
Found an article where a casino was hacked through a fish tank water temperature thermometer. With the world of IoT growing, this is just another example of someone getting hacked through a 3rd party device installed with an Operating System that wasn’t patched, or probably had default login and password enabled. They used it to grab the high…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 11 Update, on the site 6 years, 6 months ago
With facebook being in the news recently and with the campaign out there to “delete facebook” I thought this article was interesting cause Apple is doing the complete opposite of what facebook is doing with our private information that these vendors can collect about us on our personal and mobile devices.
Looks like one of the reasons driving…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 09 – Update, on the site 6 years, 7 months ago
Intel has finally redesigned its processor architecture by using partitioning. The partitioning will create an extra barrier between applications and user privileges to prevent hackers from gaining access to sensitive data processed by the processor.
These updated processors will come out in their next-generation Xeon processors (Cascade…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 7 Update, on the site 6 years, 7 months ago
Intel has finally redesigned its processor architecture by using partitioning. The partitioning will create an extra barrier between applications and user privileges to prevent hackers from gaining access to sensitive data processed by the processor.
These updated processors will come out in their next-generation Xeon processors (Cascade…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 5 Update, on the site 6 years, 8 months ago
Last week we talked about some top applications that should be avoided if possible on your system due to the high volume of vulnerabilities with them. Here’s the post from adobe announcing that adobe flash is will be end-of-life by 2020.
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 4 Update, on the site 6 years, 8 months ago
This sounds like something that would happen in Mission Impossible or in James Bond but working in the Defense industry this is definitely a real concern. Even if your working in a SCIF, they don’t want you to bring any technology, cell phones, laptops, pager, etc to avoid issues like this. Only the approved systems that are in that room are…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 3 Update, on the site 6 years, 8 months ago
Hey class,
I found out that there’s a built in way to do screen recordings with in MacOS. You should be able to do screen recordings on your mac using the native quicktime player. After you open quicktime player, there’s an option under file to do a “new screen recording”. You can select the complete screen or you can select an area of the…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 2 Update, on the site 6 years, 8 months ago
As security professionals that is in the industry or going to join the industry, we should always keep this in mind and drive vendors and product owners to stop hard-coding passwords in to their products. For example, I used to work for Comcast in my previous life and we would work with vendors for some of the hardware we would use in our…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Week 2 Update, on the site 6 years, 8 months ago
I thought this was a pretty good article too. I always love new products and services that companies like google and apple come out with. They take ideas others had a formalize it into a worthy product (most of the time). I can’t wait to see when Chronicle is out and how it’s going to use virus total and AI to give us an enhanced security tool…[Read more]
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Sev Shirozian commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, March 22, on the site 6 years, 9 months ago
RE: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powered-todays-massive-internet-outage/
After reading the online post on krebs on security, “Hacked Cameras, DVRs Powered Today’s Massive Internet Outage”, I think one of the best ways to have soften the blow with this would have been if everyone used egress filters as much and i…[Read more]