Security Blog

A vulnerability has been found in modern computer processors (after 2009) that allows one program to steal data from another program on the same computer. Computer programs are...

Krack stands for Key Reinstallation Attacks. It is an exploit against the WPA2 protocol that preys on an issue in the protocol itself. These are usually the worst kind of issues, because they affect every...

On September 7, 2017, Equifax CEO Rick Smith announced that on July 29, 2017 Equifax suffered a data breach between May and July 2017. The breach may have included the personal credit information of 143 million Americans, including...

As a security professional, I spend a lot of my time making sure that the bad guys aren't able to break in. I set up all the fancy firewalls and anti-virus to keep us safe. But what happens when a user unknowingly gives up...

There are many ways to carry out a cyber attack. You can go super technical with smashing the stack, super strength with brute forcing, or super easy with social engineering. If you have a...

Deep packet inspection is a methodology that network security professionals have been doing for many years. It involves looking at the data going over the network and determining if anything malicious is going on based on what's in those packets.

My last post on Ransomware was in 2013 when we were being hit by Cryptolocker. I mentioned that in around 2010 Data Doctor 2010 was the ransomware in the news. According to Wikipedia, the first "ransomware" was called the "AIDS Trojan" in 1989...

Three years ago, Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo demonstrated [1] an attack against one of the methods used in securing Internet traffic. 

They named their creation BEAST (Browser Exploit Against SSL...

In late September, 2014, a bug was released to the public in the popular Linux/Mac shell called bash.  For those that aren't familiar, the shell is the black box that some computer folks seem to spend...

A flurry of information is coming out about the Heartbleed vulnerability that is affecting Internet websites everywhere.  As the Information Security Officer at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), I worked closely with...