Welcome to the first of my 2016 series of posts on Pluralsight learning paths. My aim is to complete a learning path every month and give you my take on what the best bits are and whether or not you should follow the learning path yourself. For January 2016 I have chosen CompTIA Security+. There…
I have run a poll on Twitter asking whether or not paying ransomware should be made illegal. This is paying ransom to online attackers who have encrypted your files, in the hope of retrieving a decryption key in return. Paying ransomware already is illegal in many countries, but in many others it remains legal. The…
In our industry, we are used to most things steadily improving. Languages, CPUs, frameworks, etc. are all getting better all the time. But when it comes to Internet Security, the picture isn’t so clear. I am conducting a poll on Twitter asking “Is Internet security getting better or worse?” 79% of the responses so far…
Originally posted on Artineering:
So just recently a vulnerability in OpenSSL’s heartbeat extension was found which was quickly dubbed –Heartbleed. In essence, this bug allows a malicious attacker to read more than an allowed chunk of memory that might contain sensitive information from other sessions i.e. the heart beat extension bleeds memory therefore heartbleed. Its…
