Black Hat USA 2019, Matt Prevost’s ‘How Do Cyber Insurers View The World?’
Thanks to Black Hat for publishing the Black Hat 2019 tremendous conference videos on their YouTube Channel Permalink ...
Trump, Ukraine, Crowdstrike and Servers – What Gives?
From 2015 through 2016, during the run-up to the presidential election, certain cloud servers used by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were attacked and infiltrated by advanced persistent threat (APT) actors from ...
FTC Holds Companies Accountable for Online Lead Generators
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) dropped the $30 million hammer on Career Education Corporation (CEC) for using leads obtained from dubious and illegal website operators to engage with prospects with the hope ...
Are Ransom Payments Supporting Terrorists?
Organizations, particularly those that recognize that they don’t have essential security and data recovery measures in place, have taken out cyber insurance, which they are regularly using to pay off ransomware attackers ...
Russian SORM/СОРМ ISP Spyware Revealed (by Nokia Grunt)
Russia’s infrastructure for spying on its citizens has been revealed this week. An errant Nokia employee put terabytes of secret data on the internet by mistake ...
Who’s Financially Responsible for Cybersecurity Breaches?
As networks become less secure and the data stored on the cloud becomes more valuable, cybersecurity breaches are becoming both more expensive and more frequent. In the first six months of 2019 ...
What is Phishing? A Look at One of Cybercrime’s Favorite Tactics
An in-depth look at the types of attacks that are involved in 32% of all data breaches In our news-heavy world, there isn’t a lot that surprises us anymore. But... The post ...
How Hackers Set The Pace | Avast
In cybersecurity, the bad guys almost always have a head start on the good guys. There are several reasons for this, but basically security is fundamentally reactive, and there is asymmetry in ...
Lock Him Up: Why Wyden Says Zuckerberg needs ‘Prison Term’
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) blurts out his most outspoken criticism yet of Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook CEO stands accused of lying to and hurting the American people. I’m not 100% sure those are ...
Flaw Allows Phony Provisioning Alerts on Androids | Avast
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a critical flaw in the Android smartphones built by Samsung, Huawei, LG, and Sony, whereby a bad actor could potentially infiltrate a victim’s phone using a phony provisioning ...
