What is a Security Tech Stack?

Jun 7, 2022 8:27:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

What is a security tech stack? This is a bare-bones quick overview.

Microsoft Exchange Server Flaws Now Exploited for BEC Attacks

Nov 19, 2021 11:48:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Threat actors are using a couple of dangerous, new tactics to exploit the so-called ProxyShell set of vulnerabilities in on-premises Exchange Servers that Microsoft patched earlier this ...

WHAT IS XDR (EXTENDED DETECTION AND RESPONSE)?

Sep 24, 2021 2:45:23 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

ReliaQuest published a good article a little while back that quickly defines XDR and what it can do for you. This may save you some time and gets you up to speed on the latest security ...

[THIS IS UGLY] A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16

Mar 16, 2021 10:50:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

VICE just revealed a 2FA hole you can drive a truck through. A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages. This ...

[Heads Up] Has Your Exchange Been Hacked And Is Now A Ticking Time Bomb?

Mar 10, 2021 9:37:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Brian Krebs wrote: "Globally, hundreds of thousand of organizations running Exchange email servers from Microsoft just got mass-hacked, including at least 30,000 victims in the United ...

Dutch Intelligence Agencies Warn About Chinese and Russian Cyber Espionage

Feb 12, 2021 1:39:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Chinese and Russian state hackers threaten the Dutch economy. Three Dutch intelligence agencies jointly sound the alarm about digital espionage in financial newspaper Het Financieele ...

[Heads-Up] A Hacker Is Selling Access To The Email Accounts Of Hundreds Of C-Level Executives

Nov 27, 2020 11:52:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

ZDNet's Zero Day column just reported one of the best reasons why you should step your users through new-school security awareness training yet:

[On-Demand Webinar] Top 5 IT Security Myths Your CISO Believes Are True… BUSTED!

Nov 4, 2020 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Facts are facts, but what happens when IT security pros take myths at face value?

[CRITICAL] 250,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers are Unpatched and Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Attacks!

Sep 30, 2020 3:37:08 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

With an estimated 61% of Exchange servers in the wild still operating unpatched, this security flaw allows attackers to take over a vulnerable server using any set of valid email ...

[Heads Up] The First-Ever Russian BEC Gang, Cosmic Lynx, Was Uncovered. They Spear Phish Multinational & Fortune 500 Senior Executives

Jul 7, 2020 10:13:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

“This is a historic shift to the global email threat landscape and portends new and sophisticated social engineering attacks that CISOs around the world must brace for now,” according to ...

The Top 5 Eyeopener Strategies To Improve Your IT Defenses And Keep Bad Guys Out Of Your Network

Jan 9, 2020 4:16:06 PM By Roger Grimes

Last year, in 2019 according to CVEdetails, there were 12,174 new, publicly announced vulnerabilities. If that sounds like a high number, it’s a lot less than the previous two years. We ...

Half of M&A Cyber Audits Uncover Undisclosed Breaches That Derail Deals

Nov 15, 2019 7:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybersecurity diligence performed prior to a merger or acquisition often uncovers weaknesses in an organization’s security stance, which can spell doom for the company being purchased and ...

SIM Card Attack May Affect Over 1 Billion Mobile Phones Worldwide

Nov 15, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Using SMS messaging, attackers can use phishing tactics to hijack mobile devices using a legacy piece of SIM code, called the S@T Browser, to execute commands as part of a more ...

What Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Can Teach Us About Phishing

Oct 23, 2019 7:30:00 AM By Perry Carpenter

One of the greatest inventions in modern history is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. I feel sorry for any human who existed before the “age of the cup” because they never got to know the ...

A Former CIA Officer Shows You How to Make Your Organization a Hard Target

Oct 17, 2019 12:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Having spent over a decade as part of the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence and the Counterterrorism Mission Center, Rosa Smothers knows the ins and outs of leading cyber operations ...

I Can Phish Anyone

Oct 15, 2019 7:30:00 AM By Roger Grimes

I’m a bit surprised by some aggressive corporate anti-phishing policies which say they will fire anyone for one accidental phishing offense. Send me the names and email addresses of the ...

Brand-New: Multi-Factor Authentication Security Assessment Tool Helps Assess Your Organization's MFA Vulnerabilities

Oct 9, 2019 9:52:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You already know that using multi-factor authentication (MFA) can decrease your cybersecurity risk, and certainly is a much stronger defense compared to using traditional passwords alone. ...

Here Are Some Interesting Headlines I Found During Black Hat

Aug 10, 2019 10:45:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Black Hat 2019 - The Craziest, Most Terrifying Things We Saw: I ran into Neil Rubenking when I went to the Qualys party which was in the Foundation Room all the way on top of the ...

[On-demand Webinar] 5 IT Security Myths Your CISO Believes are True… BUSTED!

Mar 14, 2019 10:22:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Facts are facts… but what happens when IT security pros take myths at face value? That got us thinking… what if we whip out our magnifying glasses, pull out the trench coats and use our ...

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 ...