Tag Archives: DOE

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 33

Cause of recent DOE breach revealed to be outdated Coldfusion; 30% of adults willingly open emails they know are malicious; Spear phishing led to successful attacks on the nyt and twitter; DNS attack types

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Cause of recent DOE breach revealed to be outdated Coldfusion: http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/energy-dept-hack-details-emerge/240160685

30% of adults willingly open emails they know are malicious: http://www.csoonline.com/article/738869/social-engineering-study-finds-americans-willingly-open-malicious-emails?page=1

Spear phishing led to successful attacks on the nyt and twitter: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/082813-spear-phishing-led-to-dns-273297.html?page=1

DNS attack types: http://images.infoworld.com/d/security/3-types-of-dns-attacks-and-how-deal-them-225826

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 31

Windows XP vulnerabilities may be stored up until after end of support on April 8, 2014; Department of Energy hacked for a second time in 2013; using metasploit and exploitDB to prioritize vulnerability patching; and a number of discussions on Lavabit.

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 Department of Energy hacked for second time this year; they are out front on the effort to protect critical infrastructure: http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/16/4628284/department-of-energy-hackers-steal-personal-data-from-14000-employees

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Here is the link to the Society for Information Risk Analysts I mentioned: https://www.societyinforisk.org/ – the mailing list is here: http://lists.societyinforisk.org/mailman/listinfo/sira