A brand new virus variant, was unknown to virustotal.com before we submitted it. Despite this, it already has pretty good protection coverage, 36 of 56 antivirus products classify it as a virus.

Yesterday, Thursday October 25th, LARG*net's admin network firewalls blocked about 200,000 attacks. This amounts to just internet background noise.

Security is a pyramid: it is very simple to stop the large number of bots and low skilled hackers at the bottom of the pyramid and increasingly complicated to stop the small number of skilled attackers at the top. The following 10 steps require more skill to implement as you go down the list but are increasingly resistant to skilled attackers. Ideally, you'd complete all 10 steps.

The awesome folks at SANS and the Canadian government offer free policy templates and guidelines to use and modify to your own needs. There’s no excuse for not having policies anymore.

Today the Minister of National Defence, the Honorable Harjit S. Sajjan, announced the official launch of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (the Cyber Centre), Canada’s national authority on cyber security and cyber threat responses.