John Casaretto
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Shadow IT, Rogue Clouds and Security
Shadow IT is one of the greatest security risks that a lot of people just don’t know about. It’s actually a growing and potential threat to security in enterprise after enterprise. If you don’t know what Shadow IT is – that’s when IT systems seep into production without prior approval from the organization. The phenomenon ...
Android is #1 – in Malware so Who Else is On The List?
This shouldn’t surprise anyone, Android is the top mobile malware target in the market and it wasn’t close. 79 percent of all mobile threats in 2012 had Android dead in its sights. That finding published by Public Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Intelligence Analysis Division also indicates that mobile malware poses a ...
Homeland Security Chief: “Serious Cyber-Attack” is Coming
Janet Napolitano, the US Homeland Security Secretary (at least for the rest of this week) gave a farewell speech this week that included a dire predication: that the US would endure a major cyber-attack that would cause a major disruption in the economy. “Our country will, at some point, face a major cyber-event that will ...
Tracking Down the Syrian Electronic Army
The Syrian Electronic Army is on quite the tear lately. As reported, the latest attacks hijacked the New York Times, Huffington Post and Twitter, but they’ve also come after the Washington Post, CNN, and others in recent news. Their website was taken offline by an “internet body” today, most likely in response to their most recent ...
Did Hackers Take Down NASDAQ?
We’ve been on this soapbox repeatedly – critical infrastructure, energy, financial targets. These very visible, high-value targets comprise some of the most critically sensitive operations in the industry. Watching the news wire today, news emerged that a significant disruption caused the NASDAQ trading market to shut down for more than three hours starting at 9:20am ...
DefCon Hackers Support Electronic Freedoms With Art
DefCon is the world’s longest running and largest underground hacking conference. It’s one of those events that with each passing year gets more focus in the news. The things that come out of there have caught quite a bit of attention in the recent past and this year was no different. Along with that increased ...
FBI: We’ve Dismantled Anonymous
An official with Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) says they’ve effectively dismantled Anonymous by arresting its most active members at the core of the group. That’s the message from a report in the Huffington Post. The FBI’s claims are based on the 2012 arrests of LulzSec members – a splinter group of Anonymous that was ...
WSJ Report Claims NSA Snooping at 75% of Everything
75% – Wow, that’s a lot isn’t it? We’re talking about the latest reveal here in the capabilities of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance program. The revelation come from the Wall Street Journal today and it is getting lots of attention because it now seems the volume of their reach is like nothing we ...
Military Judge Sentences Manning to 35 Years in WikiLeaks Case
On Wednesday morning Pfc. Bradley was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. The military judge, Army colonel Denise Lind, sentenced him after Manning’s conviction on multiple charges just last month. He faced up to 90 years in prison. These charges included violations ...
Continued NSA, Press Controversies as Authorities Move In On Greenwald’s Circle, The Guardian
Big news broke Sunday evening in the NSA leaks story as the partner of the main reporter at the center of the public disclosure of the classified information was detained at Heathrow airport. The story begins with David Miranda, the partner of Glenn Greenwald who was reportedly en route from Berlin acting as a courier ...