UPDATED – WRAL and Other News Agencies Effectively Building a “How To” List for Utility Terrorism
It’s not news that two Duke Energy power substations were attacked in Moore county last week. There is a ton of speculation about why the attacks were carried out and by whom, …
NEC and Conduit Fills for Communications and Security Cabling
A question that comes up frequently for us when working on security projects with high density device counts is conduit fill. That National Electrical Code typically wants to l…
Playing Around with the PinPoint Survey Application using Amazon Data
We put together a quick demo of the PinPoint Survey Application using some public data scraped from the web for all the US Amazon sites. The equipment names and photos are all ge…
NSA Releases Guidance on How to Protect Against Software Memory Safety Issues
When the NSA makes a post about software best practices to reduce hacking attempts, you know there’s a problem. For the non-programmers, a memory safe programming language is o…
HID Signo Reader Shortage
As most people in the security industry know by now, Motorola HID has been having supply chain issues for months now for readers. As a temporary solution, they are offering a n…
Leaked Database of over 1 billion Chinese Civilians for Sale
The Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database of over 1 billion Chinese citizens is apparently up for sale for 10 Bitcoin (~USD $200,000 ). This represents terabytes of person…