Month: August 2016

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] So obviously lots and lots of reports about Verizon’s new DBIR which you have probably seen, so Im not going to report any of it. So onto the news: With latest patches, Oracle signals no more free updates…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] So onto the news: The key challenges to timely incident response Security professionals are inundated with security incidents, averaging 78 investigations per organization in the last year, with 28 percent of those incidents involving targeted attacks – one…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] So onto the news: DNS Zone Transfer AXFR Requests May Leak Domain Information A remote unauthenticated user may request a DNS zone transfer from a public-facing DNS server. If improperly configured, the DNS server may respond with information…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] I know that the Beebone botnet was taken down, but users and administrators still need to clean up. So onto the news: Top 5 Cybersecurity Failures in Financial Services … according to a report by the Center for…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] So onto the news: iOS 8.3 fixes dozens of security vulnerabilities Apple has issued more than three-dozen security fixes in its latest mobile operating system update, released Wednesday. Link: http://paulgdavis.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=45bf3caf699abf9904ddc00e3&id=56c1273799&e=20056c7556 Malware-as-a-Service enabling novice threat actors to attack According…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] So onto the news: Cyber War Games: Top 3 Lessons Learned About Incident Response Deloitte leads client organizations in war game exercises like these to “stress test” their incident response plans, and identify the strengths and weaknesses of…