I was just in the process of reviewing the details on the latest Oracle Critical Patch Advisory for July 2008 and found something a bit frightening. As in could let any random person own your database frightening.
A friend of mine and I were working on a project recently to feed the results of a vulnerability assessment or discovery scans into a behavioral monitoring tool. He was working on a series of policies that would scan database tables for specific metadata signatures and content signatures that had a high probability of being personally identifiable information. The goal was to scan databases for content types, and send back a list of objects that looked important or had a high probability of…
This is not a ‘security’ post.
Has anyone had a problem with Google AdWords continuing to bill their credit cards after their account is terminated? Within the last two months, four people have complained to me that their credit cards continued to be changed even though they cancelled their accounts. In fact, the charges were slightly higher than normal. In a couple of cases they had to cancel their credit cards in order to get the charges to stop, resulting in letters from “The Google AdWords…
On July 29th I’ll be giving a webcast entitled Using Data Leakage Prevention and Database Activity Monitoring for Data Protection. It’s a mix of my content on DLP, DAM and Information Centric security, designed to show you how to piece these technologies together.
Application and Database Monitoring and Protection. ADMP for short.
In Rich’s previous post, under “Enter ADMP”, he discussed coordination of security applications to help address security issues. They may gather data in different ways, from different segments within the IT infrastructure, and cooperate with other applications based upon the information they have gathered or gleaned from analysis. What is being described is not shoving every service into an appliance for one stop shopping; that…
I have a sneaking suspicion my hosting provider secretly hates me after getting Slashdotted twice this week. But I don’t care, because in less than 48 hours it’s iPhone Day!!!
Okay- it’s been a crazy 36 hours since Dan Kaminsky released his information on the massive multivendor patch and DNS issue. I want to give a little background on how I’ve been involved (for full disclosure) as well as some additional aspects of this. If you hate long stories, the short version is he just walked me through the details, this is a very big deal, and you need to patch immediately.
Today, CERT is issuing an advisory for a massive multivendor patch to resolve a major issue in DNS that could allow attackers to easily compromise any name server (it also affects clients). Dan Kaminsky discovered the flaw early this year and has been working with a large group of vendors on a coordinated patch.
In our last post we discussed the core functions of an endpoint DLP tool. Today we’re going to talk more about agent deployment, management, policy creation, enforcement workflow, and overall integration.
I still have not quite reached complete apathy regarding breach statistics, but I am really close. The Identity Theft Resource Center statistics made their way into the Washington Post last week, and were reposted on the front page of The Arizona Republic business section this morning. In a nutshell they are saying the number of breaches was up 69% for the first half of 2008 over the first half of 2007.