Maverick hires the best and brightest. Those who think, and do, beyond the norm. The norm doesn’t work, and good enough never is in cyber. Today, our own Shannon Praylow was recognized by NextGov as one of the Top-10 Women in Cyber. We are very proud of her, and very happy t…

The latest round of Adobe Flash vulnerabilities proves once again it is time to disable or remove Adobe Flash from all your devices where possible. The news continues to be filled with new zero-day vulnerabilities associated with this product. The latest leak from the Hacking Team has illustrated …

The OPM hack demonstrates the numerous and continuous flaws in government cyber defense. It is the second (disclosed) OPM breach in the past year alone. The data was not encrypted. The extent of the damage was not understood. The best practices that should have been in plac…

The IRS announced today (http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Statement-on-the-Get-Transcript-Application) that over 100,000 tax payers’ accounts have been exposed in a hack which exploited the Get Transcript Service (http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Get-Transcript). Get Transcript is a…

Radio Shack, a company going bankrupt, is looking for a way to pay creditors. They recently decided one of their valuable assets to make available for sale is customers’ personal information. This is information they persuaded customers to provide in order to, they said, deliver a be…

Since last Thursday the cyber news has been abuzz with articles and commentary on PC maker, Lenovo, pre-installing an application, Superfish, on all their new PCs for the past year. This has caused much consternation as issues have been raised in the past that Lenovo (a Chinese company) has ti…

This past week saw the release of the third 0-day vulnerability, already being exploited in the wild, against Adobe’s Flash software. Because of its lengthy popularity as an online media player and gaming software, Flash is one of the biggest threats to Internet security – from the corpo…

This week Anthem admitted that it had been hacked, exposing the personal data and medical history of more than 80 million people. And, shocker, they didn’t encrypt any of the Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of their customers. The lawsuits have already commenced against the second big…

Morgan Stanley recently announced that a former member of their Wealth Management Team had (allegedly) stolen the personal information of 350,000 clients (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-says-wealth-management-162540421.html). He allegedly posted 900 of them online in an attempt…

Everyone seems to want to know whodunnit when it comes to the hack of Sony Pictures. Was it North Korea? A hacker group like LizardSquad who claims credit? A disgruntled Insider? The truth is, for a Computer Network Defender (CND) the answer is not whodunnit – but who cares. &nb…