March, 2015

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Vagrant Boxes: Private Vagrant Box Hosting With Easy Versioning

NopSec

At NopSec, we are using vagrant and packer to spin up local dev environments and build our instances across the various hypervisor and cloud providers we use. We have packer scripts that build our VirtualBox and VMware images used in local development and our various instances used in our cloud providers. An issue I had to solve recently was how best to share development vagrant boxes within our team.

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$1.1 Million Penalty Issued Under Canada’s Anti-Spam Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced today that it has issued a Notice of Violation to Quebec-based business Compu-Finder […].

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Happy World Backup Day!

Spinone

March 31st is the World Backup Day. Don’t forget to back up your critical data today. Tomorrow is April 1st so don’t be an APRIL FOOL. What is backup? A backup is a second copy of all your important files — for example, job contacts, emails, files, documents and even your family photos. Instead of storing it all in one place, you keep another copy of everything somewhere else safe.

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Mapping Penetration Testing report and vulnerability management CVEs

NopSec

Penetration tests are point-in-time adversarial tests aimed at testing the intrusion prevention, detection, and incident response capabilities and controls of an organization. Usually well-trained penetration testers produce reports including the attack vectors and exploits used to successfully attack the network / application and the related vulnerabilities / CVEs exploited during the penetration test.

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The Importance of User Roles and Permissions in Cybersecurity Software

How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.

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Online Dating Site Hit with Anti-Spam Law Fine

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

On the heels of issuing its first Notice of Violation under Canada’s Anti-spam Legislation (CASL) earlier this month, the Canadian […].

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UK Announces investment in digital currencies

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

UK Chancellor, George Osborne, announced yesterday, a £10 million boost from government for digital currency such as Bitcoin. This was […].

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Cyber Vulnerability in Wind Turbines

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

It has been reported that a wind turbine which is deployed across the energy sector worldwide has been hacked. Due to […].

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