Monthly Archives: February 2018
By 2022, Hackers May Get the Upper Hand
A close look at the talent shortage problem in information security by Evan Francen We have a severe shortage of information security talent. This problem is well documented and well […]
Pyeongchang – Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency hacked Olympics Computers
Pyeongchang – Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency hacked Olympics Computers conducted a false flag operation to make it appear the attack originated in North Korea. On February 9, shortly before […]
2,000 Computers at Colorado DOT were infected with the SamSam Ransomware
SamSam Ransomware hit the Colorado DOT, The Department of Transportation Agency Shuts Down 2,000 Computers after the infection. SamSam ransomware made the headlines again, this time it infected over 2,000 computers at […]
The Global cost of cybercrime jumped up to $600 Billion
The tech giants McAfee and Cisco published two reports that providers further info about the global impact of cybercrime. Which is the cost of cybercrime? It is hard to provide an effective and […]
Learn How to Stop Breaches in 2018 with Time-based Security
We’ve lost billions of records since the first published breach at www.privacyrights.org. Please take the time to visit a visual mapping of the largest breaches… http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/ as a wake up […]
Special Report: The Secret War Against the United States
The Top Threat to National Security and the American Dream Cyber and Asymmetrical Hybrid Warfare An Urgent Call to Action ABSTRACT Imagine if Pearl Harbor had been attacked and […]
RiskIQ’s Q4 2017 Malvertising Roundup: Malvertising Increased Again in 2017 but is Trending Down
Despite another increase in year over year malvertising detections, RiskIQ’s Q4 Malvertising Roundup shows the numbers are trending down. For the second consecutive quarter, RiskIQ saw fewer malvertisements in the […]
US Attorney General Sessions Announces New Cybersecurity Task Force
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered the creation of the Justice Department’s Cyber-Digital Task Force, which will canvass the many ways that the Department is combatting the global cyber threat, […]
City Union Bank is the last victim of a cyber attack that used SWIFT to transfer funds
The Indian bank Kumbakonam-based City Union Bank announced that cyber criminals compromised its systems and transferred a total of US$1.8 million. During the weekend, the Russian central bank revealed a new attack […]
Researchers spotted a new malware in the wild, the Saturn Ransomware
Researchers at the MalwareHunterTeam spotted a new strain of ransomware called Saturn Ransomware, the name derives from the .saturn extension it appends to the name of the encrypted files. Currently, the malware […]
A new variant of the dreaded AndroRAT malware appeared in threat landscape
Security researchers from Trend Micro detected a new variant of the popular AndroRAT Android RAT in the criminal ecosystem. Security experts from Trend Micro reported the availability of a new […]
Knowledge is Power: Confronting the Intersection of Digital Transformation and DDoS
Digital transformation is sweeping over enterprise, bringing with it obvious benefits for business, such as the move from CAPEX to OPEX, improved efficiency and unprecedented interconnectedness. However, while digital transformation […]
The 3 “Must Haves” for Improving Any Company’s Security Posture
Continuous monitoring, little to no burden on the network and easy to understand, prioritized reporting top list for CISOs and CIOs Cyber attacks are growing more sophisticated, frequent, and dynamic. […]
UDPOS PoS malware exfiltrates credit card data DNS queries
A new PoS malware dubbed UDPoS appeared in the threat landscape and implements a novel and hard to detect technique to steal credit card data from infected systems. The UDPoS malware was […]
Intel releases new Spectre security updates, currently only for Skylake chips
Intel is releasing new firmware updates that should address Spectre vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715 for Skylake processors. Intel is releasing new firmware updates limited to Skylake processors to address Spectre vulnerabilities, patches for […]
WordPress Warning: Major Hole – Serious Risk. CVE…
Almost all WordPress websites could be taken down due to unpatched CVE-2018-6389 DoS flaw The Israeli security researcher Barak Tawily a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-6389 that could be exploited to trigger […]
Special Report: 5G Nationalization or Not?
Rumors that the Trump Administration are going to Nationalize 5G and takeover all cell towers in America are completely preposterous. We always hear, lately, anonymous sources say… [fill in rumor […]
More than 1 million worth of ETH stolen from Bee Token ICO Participants with phishing emails
Participants to the Bee Token ICO were robbed for 100s of ETH, scammers sent out a phishing email stating that the ICO was now open, followed by an Ethereum address […]
Special Report: How to Prepare Your Organization for a Security Incident
Every organization relies on a number of certainties to keep their business running. They trust that their employees are knowledgeable, their cybersecurity strategies are robust enough to prevent vulnerabilities, and […]
SPECIAL REPORT: Malware Exploiting Spectre & Meltdown Flaws Emerge
Researchers at the antivirus testing firm AV-TEST have discovered more than 130 samples of malware that were specifically developed to exploit the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities. The good news […]
BREAKING NEWS: Is Startup-India Infected? It seems so…
Cybersecurity Expert Surya Pratap Singh Discovers Trojan Horse Virus in Indian Government Official Startup India Website. I believe I have found a Critical Security Problem in Indian government’s startupindia.gov.in Website […]
SPECIAL REPORT: Defense in Depth is a Flawed Cyber Strategy
Threat hunting using a post breach detection solution fills gaps in a Swiss cheese perimeter The continued escalation of malware, cyber-criminal activity, geopolitical noise and enterprise confusion on how to […]