A popular hosting company suffered a network breach and lost over 13M user records. Not only did the company not know about the breach until five months later, the stolen records included clear text passwords. Watch today's video to see what you can learn from this web hoster's mistakes; of which they made many. (Episode Runtime: 2:23) Direct YouTube … [Read more...]
Plane Hacking & Crypto Logjams – WSWiR Episode 153
Are you too busy provisioning new servers and reseting your users' Windows passwords to keep up with information security news? If so, we have a quick solution for you. Learn the most important security issues in under ten minutes with our weekly security review video. Today's episode talks about the latest plane hacking drama, a new cryptographic weakness, and a data breach … [Read more...]
Tax Time Security Woes – WSWiR Episode 139
There's tons of security news each week. If you can't keep up, I try to summarize the most important stuff for you in my weekly video. This week's show covers a researcher leaking 10M credentials, Forbes' website getting hacked, a TurboTax security scare, and much more. Watch the video for all the details, or check out the Reference section for other interesting … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 32 – UDID Leaks and Java Updates
UDID Leak, Java Attack Updates, and Hacktivist breaches A few years ago, we'd be lucky to see one major information security story in the news each week. Now, we consistently see more security news than the average IT guy can keep up with. If you're looking for a quick summary of the most important information and network security news, you've come to the right place. This … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 31 – Java 0day
Java 0days, Hacktivist Data Breaches, and Dropbox Improvements Though I cover four stories in this week's security recap video, one incident far outweighed all the others this week. If you use Java—and almost everyone does—you'll want to check out today's episode. The video below covers, Dropbox's two-token authentication update, a Firefox security update, a new hacktivist … [Read more...]
