MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing
MIS 5212 - Section 001 - Wade Mackey
This ia an interesting option article about the CEO of FireEye which is a cybersecurtiy company that makesa bunch of tool for securtiy professionals. He said that if we go into a cyber war with russia with all their cyber resources VS ours, they would win. Which is really scary to think about. It means that securtiy needs to start being a higher imporantance.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/fireeye-ceo-if-the-us-and-russia-had-a-cyber-war-russia-would-win.html
The article talks about how Goverment employee believe that they are not responsible for the secutty of their work equipment and information. This is a scary statistc casue even though they might not directly effect national secrutiy they are goverment works and any information that could leak out could make a connection to someting else somehow. If for example their laptop gets stolen that is an easy in into a goverment system. It is very important to keep the information safe at all times and to have a mind set that will allow this.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/16/only-13-percent-of-government-employees-take-personal-responsibility-for-cybersecurity-survey-finds.html
This is a pretty interesting article because it effects almost anyone. The hacker who is Samy Kamkar known for the Myspace hack back in the early 2000s is now a gray hat hacker. This means that he doesn’t do it for good or bad. He tries to exploit things and then shows people the vulnerabilities so they are able to check into it and fix the it. This is interesting one that explains how easy it is to break into an eltric car, start it and start driving.
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/02/23/583682220/this-gray-hat-hacker-breaks-into-your-car-to-prove-a-point
This is a really interesting article that talks about how a piece of malware is stealing credit card information.
https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/pos-malware-dns.html