Vulnerability Scanning from AWS
At Aeris Secure, we really enjoy Amazon's infrastructure, AWS. Like most organizations, we went from having a sense of pride in our nice physical servers to eventually resenting the trips to the collocation that cloud providers make unnecessary. We enjoy all of the services that one can access with the flip of a switch, most of which require little configuration and monitoring overhead to keep running.
Dairy Queen Data Breach Impacts Arizona Business Owners
After a few weeks of speculation, Diary Queen has confirmed that nearly 400 locations were compromised in a recent data security breach. Among the 400 locations affected, 9 were local Arizona businesses.
Wi-Fi for SMB - Things to Consider
I came across a good little article [^1] earlier in the week about setting up guest Wi-Fi and I think it should really hit home with many small business owners. Simply throwing up a wireless access point and connecting it to the rest of your network so guests can have internet access is a great way to cause yourself a whole lot of pain. Not only does doing something like that have harsh PCI compliance ramifications, your systems are wide open to anyone connecting to your Wi-Fi. Depending on the range your access point allows you could have a data breach without the attacker even setting foot on your property giving any physical controls you may have in place a zero chance of working.
Weekly Wrap Up | Oct 10, 2014
This week's wrap up includes information on failing incident response, an update on the Chase Bank data breach, Jimmy Johns data breach, and the Good Will data breach.
Weekly Wrap Up Oct, 3 2014
This week's wrap summarizes the Jimmy John's data breach and the breach on Japan Airlines.