Cheap security in real life?

Albert Zenkoff
2014-06-30
Management, advice, audit, cheap, customer, management, penetration testing, practice, product, quick and dirty, security, security by obscurity, security program, systematic, white box

Security concerns are on the rise, companies are beginning to worry about the software they use. I received again a question that bears answering for all the people and all the companies out there because this is a situation that happens often nowadays. So here is my answer to the question that can be formulated ...

They never learn password security: Domino Pizza

Albert Zenkoff
2014-06-18
Management, breach, Domino Pizza, hash, MD5, password database, passwords, ransom, salt

France and Belgium Domino Pizza password database was stolen by the hackers of Rex Mundi. They require a 30,000 euro payment to avoid disclosure. Well, Domino Pizza went to police, so the 592,000 French and 58,000 Belgian customer records will be in the open tonight. What is interesting though? This is 2014. Do you know what ...

TrueCrypt disappears

Albert Zenkoff
2014-06-02
Society, audit, container, disk encryption, encryption, security, society, suspicious, Tools, truecrypt

Quite abruptly, the TrueCrypt disk encryption tool is no more. The announcement says that the tool is no longer secure and should not be used. The website provides a heavily modified version of TrueCrypt (7.2) that allows one to decrypt the data and export it from a TrueCrypt volume. Many questions are asked around what ...

Cheap security in real life?