SecurityRatty: tag: communication

ATM Communication - How Secure ?

2008-03-21 12:34:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin

...communications What you see above is the raw data message format that leaves the atm connected to a network. Cleartext communication. Notice the account number and expiration date. Totally vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. The response message that is supposed to come from the FI, looks something like this I'm...

Tags: pin, pin offsets, atm, pin translation, natural pin, key, key management, atm communications, encryption key

Netflow visibility inside Virtual Environments

2008-04-22 18:07:24 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World

...communication between virtual machines. With this lack of visibility a number of challenges start to appear such as security, monitoring and capacity planning. Its hard to secure what you cant see or dont know about and its hard to determine when you need to add more resources when you dont have a clear picture into what applications are...

Tags: virtual network communication, communication, virtual network, virtual environment communication, netflow, network communication, visibility, network, enable network visibility

Netflow visibility inside Virtual Environments

2008-04-22 18:07:24 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World

...communication between virtual machines. With this lack of visibility a number of challenges start to appear such as security, monitoring and capacity planning. It???s hard to secure what you can???t see or don???t know about and it???s hard to determine when you need to add more resources when you don???t have a clear picture into what...

Tags: virtual network communication, communication, virtual network, virtual environment communication, netflow, network communication, visibility, network, enable network visibility

Montego Networks spotted on radar

2008-03-28 12:40:02 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World

...communications between VMs has everyone buzzing but what has caught most peoples attention is Montego Networks technology that enables 3 rd party security vendors to do the same thing (VM to VM). Now, Im the CTO of Montego Networks, so my comments here are a bit biased but also first hand. So, when I tell you that its been a great...

Tags: montego networks, montego, montego networks technology, montego networks announcement, announcement, virtual communication, communication, party security vendors, security vendors

NetFlow and Visibility in the Virtual Environment

2008-03-31 23:21:54 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World

...communications within the virtual environment and potential hypervisor based attacks, we sometimes forget about the visibility problem within the virtual environment Today's blog is about just that. Visibility We've all probably heard the saying, its hard to secure what you can't see and that understanding your environment is the first step...

Tags: virtual, virtual environment, environment, virtual infrastructure, virtual switch, virtual firewall, virtual security product, physical world, world

Communicating Risk & Macs Can Do Anything

2008-03-17 13:29:33 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is

...COMMUNICATION Speaking of economics and security Amrit covers the topic of security budgets very well in his piece, Why Should We Spend on Security? . Hes not inherently advocating a risk-based approach, but when you think about the conclusions he draws, using risk is the most probable answer to the problem MORE COMMUNICATION Speaking of...

Tags: information security agency, information security, security, security amrit covers, chicago tribune, junk charts weblog, weblog, long-time chicago tribune, risk

Confidential information sent to PinPay.net and SoftCard.biz is exposed

2008-05-08 13:26:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog

...communication somewhere between me (my computer) and the destination (the web server). My information doesn't travel directly from my computer to the server. There are intermediaries (routers, switches, firewalls, etc.) that have to get (or forward) my information from my computer to the server As you can see depicted in the graphic above,...

Tags: information, drivers license card, license card, card, free card, social security card, sensitive information, sensitive personal information, encrypt sensitive information