The Trials and Errors of Security Operations Revealed in New Report
By Roberto Sandoval, Manager, WW SIOC Strategic Solutions & Enablement, HPE Security The security industry is going through a volatile period. Threat actors are becoming bolder and evolving quickly, and […]
How to Prevent Ransomware
By David Wood, Director of Global Sales at Chetu, Inc. Ransomware is one of the cruelest pieces of malware around. It makes it so you cannot access anything on your […]
Genesee County Systems Pwned!
Systems Down By Charles Parker, II; Cybersecurity Lab Engineer There are vast numbers of municipalities of various sizes adjacent to each other throughout each state in the nation. Each of […]
Investing In SIEM: How Your Business Can Improve Threat Detection and Response
By Chester Avey, Cyber Security Specialist, Independent. Despite continual advancements in security technologies to protect businesses from cyber threats, there remains no silver bullet to completely prevent breaches. And that’s […]
Configuration Mistakes That Provide Field Days for Hackers
By Tim Bandos, Vice President of Cybersecurity at Digital Guardian Sometimes it’s the little things. In hindsight, more often than not, getting hacked can stem from a minor misstep or […]
HiddenWasp and the Emergence of Linux-based Threats
By Intezer The Linux threat ecosystem is crowded with IoT DDoS botnets and crypto-mining malware. However, with low detection rates in nearly all leading anti-virus solutions, Linux threats pose new […]
The Myths You Shouldn’t Believe
By Sebastian Schaub, CEO, Hide.me There is a lot of information on the web regarding VPNs along with a wide and varied selection of VPN services to choose from. With […]
Still Misconfiguring Servers…
Addressing the Addressable By Charles Parker, II; Cybersecurity Lab Engineer When academics and students are writing papers, research is required. The research not only focused on the germane topic, however, […]
Effectively Using Email Authentication Standards for Stronger Message Integrity
By Jeff Stein, Information Security Architect, Reputation.com Once known as electronic mail and used for simple but near-instantaneous communication between computers, email has evolved to be used for a variety […]
Security in Orbit: Addressing the Current State of Satellite Security
By Geoff Pierce, Chief Information Security Officer, Centauri With 5G finally starting to roll out across the country, the anticipation for new IoT applications continues to build. With that anticipation […]
DDOS as a Distraction
How to Recognize Linked Network Attacks By Sarah Katz, Cyber Security Specialist Given the highly dynamic nature of cyberspace, the threat landscape changes every day. As new risks emerge, both […]
The Malware Research Insights
By Milica D. Djekic The malware by itself is any piece of malicious code that is capable to cause damage to the current IT configuration. The malicious applications could function […]
Crowdsourced Security and the Gig Economy
Alive and well in the worst way By Alex Haynes, CISO, CDL Let’s pretend you have offensive security skills and you want to use them for gainful employment. You attend […]
Cybersecurity and Compliance 1-2-3? Start With G-R-C
By John South, Senior Director of Global Threat Intelligence Development at NTT, Ltd. When an individual responsible for security, compliance and risk management in a corporation addresses these topics, the […]
Why You Should Use a VPN When Working With Cryptocurrencies?
Due to the increase in the hacking of Cryptocurrencies, it’s necessary for crypto users to use encryption tools. By Susan Alexandra, Contributing Writer, None It’s been two years since cryptocurrency […]
The Need for a Better Protection of Small Businesses
By Milica D. Djekic The small businesses are the most common way of enterprises bringing over half of the GDP to any economy worldwide. From such a perspective, it’s quite […]
Security Researchers Discover Massive Trend in Phishing Scams
Targeting Businesses 193% increase in PDF Phishing Detections indicate Phishing to still be a prime threat vector By Shawn Pope In Nuspire’s quarterly threat landscape report, three main vector datasets; […]
The Storm after the Breach
How Consumers and Institutions Should Guard against Cybertheft By Archie Agarwal, CEO & founder, ThreatModeler Data breaches and cyberattacks have been hitting several of the highest-profile financial and media institutions […]
Hybrid Offenses as a Current Security Concern
By Milica D. Djekic When we say an offense we would mean any kind of criminality being a transnational crime, human trafficking or act of terrorism. In its essence, any […]
September Patch Tuesday
Updates are Light, But Ransomware Attacks Escalate By Chris Goettl, Director of Product Management, Security, Ivanti September marks the second month in a row with a relatively light set of […]
Cloud Security Essentials — Session Monitoring
By Morey Haber, CTO & CISO, BeyondTrust The near-perfect personal attack vector is “shoulder surfing.” If you are not familiar with the concept, it is literally a threat actor looking […]
Speculative Execution and SWAPGS
A Match Made In Heaven for Motivated Threat Actors By Filip Truta, Information Security Analyst, Bitdefender What if cybercriminals could deploy an attack that is both devastating and impossible to […]
Hidden and High Priority Threats
Understanding Destructive Objects By Tyson Whitten, Vice President of Global Marketing, ReversingLabs Are you confident in what you saw today? It’s a simple, yet important question that nobody in security […]
Flexibility in Vulnerability Management: Why it’s Essential
By Jim Souders, Chief Executive Officer, Adaptiva Eighty percent of cyberattacks happen at the endpoint today. When you consider that cybercrime is projected to cost $6 trillion annually by 2021, […]
Hacking the projector at a cyber event
By Milica D. Djekic You would probably be present or hear about some cybersecurity events where some of the attendees hacked the conference projector using a mobile device. Such a […]
Why Cyber Security is Redefining SMEs’ Business Operations on the Cloud
By Mufassira Fathima, Content Writer, Allied Analytics LLP Modern-day IT infrastructures and data centers are revolutionized by the advent of technology and cloud-based services. The emergence of the cloud, as […]
Cyber Security and the Supply Chain: Strengthening the Weak Links
By Simon Taylor, VP Product at Glasswall Solutions In today’s cybersecurity climate, with high-profile hacks and data breaches constantly in the headlines, businesses are putting more effort than ever into […]
The challenges of the good incident response strategies
By Milica D. Djekic The incident response (IR) is one of the key challenges to a modern cyber defense. Practically, it would include three crucially important steps being (1) preparation, […]
How Vulnerable Are You?
By Bill Graham, Technical Marketing Specialist, GrammaTech Introduction The promise of static analysis is compelling but our most frequently asked question is, “Where do we start?” Security is a top-of-mind […]
How to survive the cybersecurity expertise shortfall
By François Amigorena, CEO, IS Decisions Analysts everywhere are fretting about the lack of cybersecurity professionals across the world. The Cybersecurity Jobs Report believes the global shortfall of cybersecurity workers […]