Last Friday Target issued an update acknowledging that encrypted PIN data were included in the data stolen in their recent breach. This quickly became a hot news segment and the social media was abuzz with renewed criticism of the retailer. Though the data technically was stolen, and I applaud Target for publicly announcing it, this …
Tactical Burp Suite Webinar Secure Ideas is excited to announce its latest upcoming online training. We will be offering a two-hour session exploring Burp Suite and its use in a web application penetration test. Kevin Johnson and James Jardine will explore the various features of Burp Suite, focused on how we use the system during …
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One of the fun things about working at Secure Ideas are the conversations that we have about different technologies and platforms. One of my favorites are the ongoing discussion that Kevin and I have had about the Xbox Live platform and now the Xbox One. A bit before the Xbox One was released we decided …
All it takes is one big nasty security breach and the whole world will be watching you through a microscope. Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) issued a press release this past Thursday confirming that 40 million credit and debit card accounts may have been compromised between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, 2013. When I first …
Over the past few years we have seen a large number of databases get compromised leading to the disclosure of user passwords. Whether or not the passwords were stored properly or not is beyond the discussion in this post and better left for a post on its own. The problem here is that attackers are …
Secure Ideas is very excited to be offering the first public run of our Secure Coding for Web Developers class. This is a class we have been running for our clients in various forms over the last couple of years and have been asked to run it in Denver on January 14th and 15th 2014. …