Chrome to label more sites as insecure in 2017

Link: https://security.googleblog.com/2016/09/moving-towards-more-secure-web.html
Focus on sites that transmit passwords or credit card info over HTTP

A USB Device is all it takes to steal credentials from locked PCs

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3117793/security/a-usb-device-is-all-it-takes-to-steal-credentials-from-locked-pcs.html
This is actually pretty interesting, but a little trickier than it sounds
Still - it's quite fascinating that a USB attack works cross-platform, based on network activity and default USB behaviors

DHS chief: 'Very difficult' for hackers to skew vote

Link: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/294956-homeland-head-very-difficult-for-hackers-to-skew-vote
- Instead of dismissing the claim, let’s explore the merits
- Then let’s consider what, if anything, it means for enterprise security
“It would be very difficult through any sort of cyber intrusion to alter the ballot count, simply because it is so decentralized and so vast,” he said, noting the series of state, local and county systems involved in running elections. “It would be very difficult to alter the count.”
- Decentralized and vast - the merits
- How many companies make the systems - so is it as decentralized as we’d like
- How much of what you do in the enterprise is decentralized?
- What are your points of failure - or the easy pathways to attack?
If someone did alter the vote… would we know? How would we know?
What’s the impact of appearing to alter the vote?
Depending on your organiz

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DtSR Episode 211 - NewsCast for Sept 13th 2016

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