There doesn’t seem to be a week that goes by where I’m not reading about a hacker stealing online account information. Are you using the same password for the majority of your online accounts? If so, you stand a good chance of becoming a victim. An easy solution is to use a password manager so you can have unique passwords for each of your online accounts. The password manager will keep track of all of your passwords in an encrypted file. I just started using Dashlane because it had great reviews and you can’t beat the price – free. What are you waiting for? Download it and start using hardened and unique passwords for each of your online accounts. If one of your online accounts is hacked, Dashlane will notify you and advise you to change your password. Sweet!
Home Depot Credit Card Breach
Its sad that the Home Depot credit card breach could have been preventable if proper security measures were taken. The cost to secure Home Depot would have been much less than the costs it now faces in both monetary terms and its reputation. Don’t delay in having your networks and systems tested for vulnerabilities.
How often should you conduct penetration testing?
Most security experts recommend at least once a year and after any major infrastructure change. Here’s a great article on the topic.
http://www.zdnet.com/how-often-should-you-conduct-penetration-testing-7000032285/
NetProtex, Inc. provides a full range of security testing services from vulnerability testing to penetration testing.
Persistent Malware
Malware is a malicious file stored on an infected computer system in order to damage the system or steal sensitive data from it or perform other malicious activities. Security researchers have uncovered a new and sophisticated piece of malware that infects systems and steals data without installing any file onto the targeted system.
Researchers dubbed this persistent malware as Poweliks, which resides in the computer registry only and is therefore not easily detectable as other typical malware that installs files on the affected system which can be scanned by antivirus or anti-malware Software.
Source: thehackernews.com
2014 Great Sierra River Cleanup
The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (one of our awesome clients) is hosting the 2014 Great Sierra River Cleanup. Please see the following link for details.
http://www.sierranevadaconservancy.ca.gov/our-work/rivercleanup/2014gsrc
New Parter – Norcal Voice and Data
We are now partnering with Norcal Voice and Data to provide networking and security services to their clients.
Board of Directors Meeting
We held our board of directors meeting in Hawaii this year. After business was concluded, we had a great time in paradise.
Smog Check II
We teamed up with two of our Partners (Informatix and GoCrusade) to perform security testing on the new Smog check program. The new system will be nice for all cars with an ODBII port, the tailpipe sniffer is gone. The new testing involves reading and transmitting ODBII information only.
Making Waves Education Program
This summer we helped relocate the data center for MWEP to a new location. Included in the work was designing the network for VMware virtualization.
Bayside Church
Bayside is building a new North Campus Church. We are doing the network design and implementation for a converged network of voice, video and data. Live streaming of services will be broadcasted between locations.