Security Issue Employees – Awareness is a must

Security Issue Employees – Awareness is a must

As shown in the previous blog post already in detail and hopefully haunting, awareness can defend many attacks successfully. To do this, companies need to develop an awareness strategy to successfully motivate employees to recognize and ward off social engineering. In this context, I recommend anyone who is in IT security, but also the management, Kevin Mitnick’s book – The art of deception – ISBN 0-471-23712-4 – to read. Who has the opportunity to attend one of his lectures, it is […]

How I take over your business

How I take over your business

In 1987, I brought despair to my instructor at Comparex, where I used a simple security hole on a 3270 screen controller for terminals attached to a /370 mainframe. Batch files were higher in precedence than executable files. So I constructed a batch file that produced a ripple print on the screen and kept outputting “I’m a little virus” in an endless loop. A batch command that was executed copied a bunch of other batch files with the names of […]