Monthly Archives: March 2016

I Told You So! (or…. How to NOT Screw Up Security on an IBM i)

Posted on 03/21/2016 by Patrick Botz

Verizon’s “Data breach digest. Scenarios from the field.” document includes a description of a successful attack on a water utility running on an “AS/400” (a.k.a. IBM i.)  It describes how a suspected Syrian “hacktivist” group broke into an IBM i … Continue reading →

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Can an Apple a Day Keep the FBI Away?

Posted on 03/21/2016 by Patrick Botz

Lately I’ve found myself wondering…. does the FBI really need Apple’s help to decrypt a bad guy’s iPhone? Something seems fishy about the dust up between the FBI and Apple over the encrypted iPhone previously used by one of the … Continue reading →

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