Security

Equifax Hack

Friends, please do NOT click on any website or link that purports to allow you to “check” if you have been compromised in the Equifax hack. Clicking on these links, and then providing confidential or…


Un-patched Systems

https://www.cnet.com/news/most-android-users-running-outdated-security-patches-report-says/ An article on March 23, 2017 from C|Net reports that 71% of Android users on major U.S. cellular carriers…


Repetitive nature of problems

Working in the Information Security industry, I follow as much information as I can on the attacks and vulnerabilities that occur in our industry. Sometimes these attacks occur as a result of new or…


The Evils of MD5

I have a new cause.  I didn’t expect to have one, but we don’t always get to choose.  Sometimes, the issues choose us.  In February 2017, the cryptographic hashing algorithm SHA-1 was broken in…