Researchers Seek Out Ways to Search IPv6 Space
This puts the challenges for security researchers in perspective as the planet shifts to IPv6…: […] Time for a little math. The IPv6 Internet has 2^128 addresses, or 3.4 times […]
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Ransomware’s New Normal
It’s big business…: Don’t be fooled by the drop in overall ransomware attacks this past year: Fewer but more targeted and lucrative campaigns against larger organizations are the new MO […]
Criminals Use One Line of Code to Steal Card Data from E-Commerce Sites
If brevity is the mark of genius then this is doubleplus good. however, I run several Magento-based sites so keeping these pesky critters at bay is becoming a full time […]
Word Bug Allows Attackers to Sneak Exploits Past Anti-Malware Defenses
Is your MS Office up to date with patches?…: “Our detection engines spotted an attacker group, which seems to originate from Serbia, using specially-crafted Microsoft Word documents to take advantage […]
Consumers Care About Privacy, but Not Enough to Act on It
Consumers might not do anything about securing apps and equipment they already own, but vendors have an opportunity to position themselves as ‘more private’ like Apple have attempted to do…: […]
Incident Response: Having a Plan Isn’t Enough
If your incident response is shelfware that never gets updated or, and more importantly, practised and improved. Then it might actually be worse than winging it…: […] “Where we see […]
Startup Armor Scientific Launches Multifactor Identity System
It’s a good idea, removing the need for multiple steps to get authenticated, but it sounds fiendishly complicated to achieve…: […] Increasingly, companies are moving to two-factor (2FA) authentication or […]
Dow Jones Leak Exposes Watchlist Database
Simple Shodan searches can reveal powerful things…: […] A data leak at Dow Jones exposed the financial firm’s Watchlist database, which contains information on high-risk individuals and was left on […]
Social Media Platforms Double as Major Malware Distribution Centers
This isn’t much of a surprise, and is actually a testament to the effectiveness of other controls. What does your Acceptable Use Policy say about access to social media from […]
DIY Botnet Detection: Techniques and Challenges
TL;DR – know what traffic is going in and out of your network…: […] When looking at exploit attempts, there are a few possible indications for a botnet. For example, […]