OSINT – a Hacker’s First Asset in Targeted Attacks

Jul 25, 2019 5:19:19 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Before a cybercriminal wants to engage in a targeted attack against a particular organization or individual, they’d like to know a few things first. That’s where OSINT comes into play.

Hackers Exfiltrate 7.5TB From Russian FSB Contractor

Jul 22, 2019 10:52:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

'Biggest ever breach' exposes project to de-anonymize Tor traffic. IF YOU'RE A CONTRACTOR to a government intelligence service, then getting hacked is a really bad look. Especially if the ...

"YouTube mystery ban on hacking videos has content creators puzzled"

Jul 5, 2019 4:14:22 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

That was the title of the always entertaining The Register's post about YouTube, under fire since inception for building a business on other people's copyrights and in recent years for ...

Biometrics Can’t Replace Passwords: A Cybercriminal's Dream

Jun 4, 2019 1:11:44 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

In the quest to create a more secure environment, new ways to authenticate that replace the password are being sought. But it’s looking like passwords are here to stay.

UK Says It Warned 16 Nato Allies Of Russian Hacking Activities

May 28, 2019 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The UK has shared information on Russian hacking attacks with 16 NATO allies over the last 18 months, a British government official said today. "I can disclose that in the last 18 months, ...

Cyber Espionage Warning: The Most Advanced Hacking Groups Are Getting More Ambitious

Feb 24, 2019 11:04:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Once attackers might have needed the latest zero-days to gain access to corporate networks, but now it's spear-phishing emails using social engineering tactics that are most likely to ...

You Must Know What You're Clicking On Even With MFA

Dec 27, 2018 12:00:56 PM By Roger Grimes

By Roger Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-driven Defense Evangelist. I’ve been in computer security for over 30-years and I’ve been giving presentations nearly as long. And in that time, no talk ...

Yes, Google's Security Key Is Hackable

Jul 26, 2018 2:22:03 PM By Roger Grimes

Here is an article by Roger Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4 Ever since Google told the world that none of its 85,000 employees had been successfully hacked since they ...

Another Hacking Scandal? Russians could be behind 'cyber caliphate'

Jul 16, 2018 7:13:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The US Senate is asking the Justice Department to look into the possibility that an Islamic extremist hacking group was actually the work of the Russian government.

Can Russian hackers be stopped? Here's why it might take 20 years (cover story PDF)

Jun 18, 2018 4:43:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here's some excellent ammo from TechRepublic for a long-term IT security budget proposal. For this TechRepublic cover story, their Editor in Chief EMEA Steve Ranger explains why deterring ...

So, How Did Russia Succeed In Hacking Our Energy Systems?

Mar 30, 2018 6:15:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The nightmare scenario is the grid going down and we're all pushed back a 100 years (electricity started around 1880 but only became common in the 1930s). James Conca wrote in Forbes: ...

How did the Ukraine become a Hotbed of Criminal Hacking?

Oct 8, 2017 10:01:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The New York Times came out with a great backgrounder why the Ukraine is such a hotbed for cyber criminals like Gennadi Kapkanov, 33, a Russian-born Ukrainian hacker, the man suspected of ...

U.S. Court Sentences Russian Hacker to a Record-Setting 27 Years

Apr 23, 2017 9:21:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

On Friday, a Seattle Federal District Court judge sentenced 32 year old Roman Valerevich Seleznev to 27 years in prison for running a vast credit card and identity theft operation, ...

Hacking Compromised Brazilian Bank Top To Bottom

Apr 8, 2017 9:32:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Now here is an IT hacking horror story for you! Kaspersky's blog tells the tale of a bank in Brasil who lost their full online presense and had all of its 36 domains, corporate email and ...

Verizon Wanted A 925 Million Discount Because Of Yahoo Hacking. CEO Mayer gets 23 Million Parachute

Mar 14, 2017 7:47:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A newly filed Schedule A proxy statement at the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Verizon requested a discount of 925 million dollar off the original 4.83 billion purchase ...

Survey: Most Hackers Break In Within Six Hours

Feb 25, 2017 10:09:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A recent survey of 70 professional hackers and penetration testers found that 60% of them take a maximum of just six hours to compromise a target. The research titled The Black Report, ...

Is Lynda.com A Hacking Victim? They Lost 55K Records Somehow...

Dec 19, 2016 1:58:43 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Lynda.com, the online learning unit of LinkedIn, has reset passwords for some of its users after it discovered recently that an unauthorized external party had accessed a database ...

The 7 Levels Of Hackers

Oct 9, 2016 7:35:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Eric Chabrow over at the Government Info Security blog found an interesting post by Stuart Coulson, who is a director of a hosting provider in the U.K. Coulson wrote a somewhat longish ...

Uh oh, Yahoo May Have Been COMPLETELY Pwned

Oct 2, 2016 9:10:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We predicted that this would happen on September 23rd when the news broke that Yahoo lost "at least" 500 Million credentials. Just for a change I'm quoting myself here: :-D "Right, that ...

InfoArmor: The Yahoo Hackers Were Not State-sponsored

Sep 29, 2016 3:54:11 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Eastern European organized crime, not state-sponsored hackers, were behind the record breaking 2014 Yahoo data breach that exposed information about hundreds of millions of Yahoo user ...

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