Networks
The latest technologies and best practices to secure local, virtual, cloud, and hybrid networks.
Pwnie Express Intros Power Pwn Hacking Tool
Pwnie Express recently announced the upcoming release of the Power Pwn, a complete penetrating testing platform disguised as a surge protector."The device is a $1,295 'penetration testing' tool that...
How to Prevent DoS Attacks
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, in which attackers make it impossible for network users to access information or services by flooding the network with requests t...
Top 3 Insecure Password Management Practices
Here's a dirty little secret about passwords in the enterprise: In many organizations, IT administrators sometimes follow insecure password management practices because it's often the easiest way to...
How to Run Your Own Certificate Authority
Digital certificates lie at the heart of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) security technologies such as encrypted email, document signing, VPN access, server SSL a...
Smart Meter Hacks Cost a Single Utility $400 Million a Year
According to KrebsOnSecurity's Brian Krebs, a 2010 FBI cyber intelligence bulletin reported that cyber attacks on smart meters have already cost a single electric utility in Puerto Rico, the Puerto ...
How to Secure Your Facebook Business Page
Do you manage a Facebook Page for your business or organization? If so, you're probably aware that many of the same security issues that plague personal profiles also apply ...
Protecting Against SQL Injection Attacks with Oracle Database Firewall
Exploits that take advantage of SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerabilities in software are among the most dangerous and prevalent attacks on the Internet today.In a SQLi attack, hackers typically take adv...
Two Factor Authentication: SMS vs. Tokens
The numbers are staggering. About 750 million airline passengers must remove their shoes every year because one lone nut, Richard Reid (now a resident of a supermax prison in Colorado), once tried t...
The Pros and Cons of Opal Compliant Drives
Full-disk encryption (FDE) used to be a software-only proprietary solution. But over the past couple of years, a hardware based hard drive standard has emerged in...
Password Roulette: Betting on Password Storage Apps
Call Ondrej Krehel the poster boy for the password problem that is confronting all of us. Password protection on corporate servers is proving to be dangerously porous -- think Sony, Citigroup, even ...
