Well-known IT Security guru Bruce Schneier commented on recent discoveries related to the Sony Hack. First of all, an analysis of the timestamps on some of the leaked documents shows that ...
Organizations defend their networks on each of the six levels in the green graph you see. End-user Internet Security Awareness Training resides in the outer layer: ‘Policies, Procedures, ...
TK Keanini, CTO, Lancope wrote a 2015 Predictions editorial over at SC Magazine. He said he expects more malware like CryptoLocker and CryptoWall over the next 12 months, but also ...
Mitch Lipka of CBS Moneywatch wrote:
CyberheistNews Vol 4 #51 Dec 30, 2014 2015 Crystal Ball / Three Scams To Warn Your Users About During my 15-year stint as the editor of WServerNews, I always started the year with a ...
It's the holidays and the bad guys are working overtime. There are three scams you want to warn your users about. Remember the Phil Esterhaus character in Hill Street Blues? To begin ...
Lance Spitzner at the SANS Securing The Human program and I have a lot in common; we evangelize effective security awareness training and we both drive a Tesla. In his 22 December 2014 ...
This is actually quite interesting, hackers that are successful inside Russia, as normally these guys are shut down by the FSB in a heartbeat. It must be that they are outside of the ...
Following last year’s big announcement of not just Target’s data breach but executive job loss, CSO lays out 9 data breaches resulting in job loss. They compare Target alongside other ...
This Sony Pictures Cyber Attack TIMELINE by the www.databreachtoday.com site is quite interesting.
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Hackers breached security of a German steel mill's network and caused considerable damage by manipulating the controls of a blast furnace. The attackers gained access to the network ...
Lessons Learned From The Sony Pictures Hack Bruce Schneier reminded me of an old but very relevant concept in IT Security. There are two types of attacks: opportunistic and targeted. And ...
System admins hold the keys to the kingdom. The NSA is actively hunting for system admin credentials. A popular way to get you to click on something that installs zero-day malware on your ...
It's still not clear (and it may never be discovered) how the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea (DPRK) hackers came in, perhaps they used all available threat vectors since ...
Office supply chain Staples Inc. today finally acknowledged that a malware intrusion by hackers this year at some of its stores resulted in a credit card breach. The company now says some ...
Bruce Schneier reminded me of an old but very relevant concept in IT Security. There are two types of attacks: opportunistic and targeted. And then you can characterize attackers on two ...
Symantec just put this out and I thought you might be interested. They are seeing a lot of hackers using Upatre and Ponik malware over the last couple of months, delivered by spam email ...
It does not get any worse than this. Or better than this, if you are a criminal hacker. Domain-name management organization ICANN announced it has been hacked and its DNS zone ...
