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The Asymmetric Costs of Security

I ran across a great article here the other day about a presentation at the Kiwicon in New Zealand. What really caught my eye was the asymmetry in terms of costs to the attacker and...

GreenRADIUS v1.2.1.0

December 23, 2014 POODLE & POODLE2 updates and mitigations have been implemented for externally facing web services. It is recommended to restrict access to the Webmin console to only internal networks. Since GreenRADIUS should not...

GRINCH Vulnerability report

On December 17, 2014 Alert Logic reported a potentially serious Linux vulnerability that was quickly dubbed the “Grinch”. Green Rocket began investigating the nature of the vulnerability, and has concluded there is no threat. As...

Now that the line has been crossed, where will it end?

About all I can say is WOW. Earlier this month, I mentioned that Sony didn’t have the best security practices as evidenced by some of the information leaking out after the large hack. And to...

This Time, Microsoft Stands Up for Us, Not Just Themselves

This story has been going on for some time now, but I thought that while not directly related to Green Rocket Security, it is important to point out. The US government has taken Microsoft to...

Will this tech really kill passwords? 2FA is still the better choice

I ran across this article the other day, talking about how these new technologies are going to kill passwords. I have to say though, that I largely find the tech they discuss laughable for killing...

Now we know that Sony doesn’t have good security inside as well as outside

“Wow” is about all I can say to this article about the recent Sony hack. Along with all the other data that was taken, it now appears that a large number of documents contained passwords...

So even parking services need 2FA

So after a nice Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. last week, we come back to news of yet another hack involving credentials to remotely access a network. As detailed here, SP+, a parking facilities...

Awesome News for 2FA Use and the Cloud

Great news for Yubico today as they announced that the CEO of Salesforce.com has invested in the company and a founding board member of Google has joined the board of directors. This shows the increasing...

It’s Not Just Your Employees You Need to Worry About

As we approach Thanksgiving this year in the U.S., we are reminded of the hack of the point-of-sale systems at Target at about this time last year. It was (at the time) the largest hack...