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Monthly Archives: October 2013
The Adobe Breach: Initial Lessons
Now that we’ve had a little time to absorb the impact of the Adobe breach, there’s a few lessons we can learn already. First, a link for those who have been living in a cave and don’t know what I … Continue reading
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Posted in InfoSec, Risk Management, Security, Vulnerability Management
Tagged Adobe, Lessons Learned, Users, Vulnerability Insanity
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Interesting Things
I work for a very interesting company, culturally speaking. It was originally founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina about 15 years ago. After achieving significant success in their market space, Core moved its headquarters to Boston. However, the majority of the … Continue reading
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Posted in General, Life and Times
Tagged Boston, Buenos Aires, political correctness, politics, West Coast
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Back to Basics …. Again
It appears that the bad guys who exploited Adobe in August, and stole ColdFusion and Adobe (maybe) source code, as well as millions of credit card numbers, used a well known ColdFusion vulnerability. What seems to have happened is that … Continue reading
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Posted in BYOD, InfoSec, Security, Vulnerability Management
Tagged Adobe, attack paths, ColdFusion, CORE Security, exploits, infosec, IT Operations, vulnerabilities
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Day 3 at CORE
Yet another day of fun at CORE today. Spent the day getting to know the people, figuring out critical strategies, and places where I can start inserting myself to have some immediate impact. Started working on goals for the next … Continue reading
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Posted in CyberWar, FUD, General, InfoSec, Life and Times
Tagged back doors, cyber-security, cyberwar, encryption, infosec, instapundit, NSA, security
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It’s Day Two
And I am having a blast here at CORE Security! Got to be part of the quarter end yesterday … I think that was really good, making sure I experienced the craziness as everything came down to the last couple … Continue reading