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December 7, 2016 by James Jardine Leave a Comment

The 1 thing you need to know about the Daily Motion hack

It was just released that Daily Motion suffered a hack attack resulting in a large number of usernames and email addresses being released. Rather than focusing on the number of records received (the wow factor), I want to highlight what most places are just glancing over: Password Storage. According to the report, only a small portion of the accounts had a password associated with it. That is in the millions, and you might be thinking this is bad. It is actually the highlight of the story. … [Read more...] about The 1 thing you need to know about the Daily Motion hack

Filed Under: General, News, Take-Aways Tagged With: breach, hack, hacked, hackers, notification, password storage, passwords, secure, secure application, secure code, secure design, secure development, security

August 15, 2015 by James Jardine

Tips for Securing Test Servers/Devices on a Network

How many times have you wanted to see how something worked, or it looked really cool, so you stood up an instance on your network? You are trying out Jenkins, or you stood up a new Tomcat server for some internal testing. Do you practice good security procedures on these systems? Do you set strong passwords? Do you apply updates? These devices or applications are often overlooked by the person that stood them up, and probably unknown to the security team. It may seem as though these systems … [Read more...] about Tips for Securing Test Servers/Devices on a Network

Filed Under: General Tagged With: application, application security, hackers, laudanum, network, penetration testing, security, security awareness, security testing, shell, testing

April 28, 2015 by James Jardine Leave a Comment

Beware the Edge Cases: Master the Fundamentals

Have you seen some of the cool things that hackers can do? I remember a few years back when they created the BlueSniper Rifle, a device that could allow picking up a BlueTooth signal from up to a mile away. That is pretty impressive for a technology that was meant to be used at a distance of just a few meters. This is just one example of ways that hackers have found ways to bypass the limits of a technology. Some of these things you may have never heard of, whereas some are picked up by the … [Read more...] about Beware the Edge Cases: Master the Fundamentals

Filed Under: General Tagged With: administrators, attacks, bluesniper, developer, developer security, edge cases, hackers, outliers, security

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