In The Realm of the Hackers is a 2003 Australian documentary directed by Kevin Anderson about the prominent hacker community, centered in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1980s until early 1990. The storyline is centered on the Australian teenagers going by the hacker names “Electron” and “Phoenix“, who were members of an elite computer hacking…
Heartland Payment Systems Inc. lost 130 million payment card numbers to a cybercrime gang in 2008, its chief executive, Robert Carr, has been telling people to encrypt more of their data. The idea: If card numbers are encrypted from the instant they enter retailer computers, there’s not a lot that hackers can do with it.…
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You’d think that we would have gotten a handle on “remediation” given that the term was first coined in 1818. However 197 years later it is a growing concern, especially when it comes to IT remediation.
On this eve of the so-called Easter Sunday, keep in mind that holidays are particularly good times to social engineer, trick, fool and con people out of their companies reputation and data.
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Google has announced that its web browser Chrome and other products will no longer recognize security certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center(CNNIC).
The short answer is that the three are very different. Take note of their differences: Cryptography is writing hidden messages – a historical / forensic approach. Cryptanalysis is analysing hidden messages – a statistical / analytical approach. Cryptology is reading hidden messages – a linguistic / code-breaking approach. Generally, you’ll see these terms used extremely…
The latest version, Nessus v6, enables you to reduce your attack surface by enforcing compliance and system hardening policies. Nessus users will more easily be able to create and customize compliance and security policies while also being able to manage scan results, schedules, and policies.
Ethical hacker/penetration tester creed: Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. It takes hard work. Jock Jock Pereira | jockpereira.com | jockster@gmail.com | 978-666-4000
Jock Pereira | Ethical Hacker | Social Engineer | Penetration Tester | Incident Handler 