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National Security March 2, 2018

Equifax Certificate Unravelling Security on Windows 10 OS

Announcing the Equimelt Vulnerability Old and Weak Equifax encryption Certificate Authority appears to be compromising many U.S. businesses, allowing for the potential of Nation State Actors to silently monitor their targets. As a computer forensics…

National Security October 3, 2017

Hacker May Be Selling Popular Website Databases

It is time to change passwords on the following services. Yesterday I discovered a nefarious post on pastebin.com that listed out numerous databases available for sale. The types of accounts largely fell into a few…

National Security September 18, 2017

GPS Cyber Attacks May Be Causing Military Vehicle Crashes

News sources reported today that the U.S. Air Force is conducting aviation training tests this week blocking GPS signals while conducting training flight maneuvers. It is not known with certainty if this relates in anyway…

National Security August 30, 2017

Intel’s Secret Backdoor Can Now Be Turned Off

Intel has incorporated a System on a Chip (SOC) known as the Intel Management Engine. The Intel Management Engine acts as a computer that sits on top of the microprocessor and is connected to the…

National Security August 18, 2017

Raspberry Pi That Controls SCADA Systems and Pace Makers now Has an Important Security Update

Everyone in control of this platform at work or in government should make sure systems are patched tomorrow. Congratulations to the Brits for fixing the problems and publicly acknowledging the issues and concluding with a…

National Security August 10, 2017

Raspberry Pi Patch to protect against BroadPwn pre-released

Pre-Release Fix to Broadcom “BroadPwn” Chip on Raspberry Pi Computers Now Available Broadcom Wifi Chips in the BCM43xx family have been used widely in iPhones, Android phones, WiFi Access point routers and even Raspberry Pi…

National Security June 30, 2017

DNSSEC What it does to protect your domain

You may be wondering what DNSSEC is and why you should care about using it. DNSSEC is a technology that uses cryptographic keys to validate the connection between a client end user and a domain…

National Security June 5, 2017

Top Most Vulnerable States and Cities Remain Vulnerable to Double Pulsar Samba Port 445 Exploits

Many months after U.S. Cert issued their first warning to the public regarding exploits to the vulnerable port 445 allowing for a remote attacker to take over a vulnerable computer, many computers that are publicly…

National Security May 30, 2017

Chinese Affiliated ISPs Make Progress While Many U.S. ISPs Falter

In the roughly two weeks since I first compiled my list of top, most vulnerable ISPs that have the SMB Port 445 open, leaving those public facing computers vulnerable to recently leaked NSA Cyber Weapons,…

National Security May 23, 2017

China Infiltration of U.S. ISPs Creates Beachhead for Cyber Attacks

At no time since the Bay of Pigs Missile crisis, has our nation ever crept closer to the brink of nuclear war. With North Korea launching missiles to try to demonstrate their capacity and the…

Lee Neubecker

CISSP, MBA, Cyber Security Professional & Computer Forensics Expert