I'm back from my many summer travels and hope to have some time to do some posting. However, some new customers are keeping us a bit busy, so don't get your hopes up. Not that you would.

Dave Jevans, CEO of IronKey, (disclosure: IronKey is a WiKID customer) has a post on the Wells Fargo - Microbilt consumer credit bureau breach(which he also references in Cloud Security: The Need for Two-Factor Authentication in Cloud Computing.

What's interesting to me is how similar this is to the Ford Credit/Experian breach 5 years ago. Well, perhaps it's good that it took five years for this to happen again?

As posted on Slashdot, Redhat has been hacked.

The WiKID ISO and thus the VMWare image are based on Centos 5. We ran Redhat's openssh-blacklist script on a 3.0 iso install and got a clean report. I suspect that Redhat caught the attack before it was propagated downstream. However, if you are running the WiKID iso and you're updating the system yourself or you have installed the RPM version, please take a quick second to make sure your secure by running the script.

I am interested in how the breach occurred, as are most commentators on Slashdot.