One of the nice things about the ASD's Strategies to mitigate Targed Cyber Intrusoions is that they rank them by effectiveness. Saying that their top four would prevent 85% of intrusions.
Their top four are:
- Application Whitelisting.
- Patching Applications.
- Patching Operating System Vulnerabilities.
- Restrict Administrative privileges.
Patching is two out …
At work yesterday we got a couple of phishing email claiming to be traffic infringements, nothing too remarkable about that. But interestingly this time the links in the emails to Bitly, a url shortener service that redirects traffic instead of going directly to some hacked site hosting malware.
With Bitly …
Good security is about defence in depth, layers of security. There is no one thing that will make you secure but one of the easiest things to do that gets you the best bang for your buck is patching your software.
On windows this is called Automatic Updates, in Debian …
I like many people struggle1 with apathy, it's not that I'm depressed or that I don't find enjoyment in doing things. I still get that hacker like thirst for knowledge, that need to solve a problem or to understand what makes something tick. But sometimes I think it would …
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