Data Security
Purdue University’s CERIAS 2021 Security Symposium – Caroline Wong’s ‘Security Industry Context’
Our thanks to Purdue University’s The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) for publishing their illuminating security symposiums, seminars, talks, and presentations on the Schools’ YouTube channel ...
Record High Ransomware Payouts in 2021 as Extortion Evolves
Flush with cash from successful ransomware campaigns, cybercriminals are investing in more sophisticated technology and using new tactics to drive up ransomware payments even further, with the Conti ransomware group responsible for ...
How Much Does a Data Breach Cost?
According to IBM's Annual Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021, the average cost of a data breach is around $4.24 million. In the United States and Canada, it's even higher. So ...
US and EC Forge Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
On March 25, the White House and the European Commission announced they had agreed to a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework which addresses the EU Court of Justice’s concerns. The United States ...
Out of Band (OOB) Data Exfiltration via DNS
Last week, I attended the NotSoSecure Advanced Web Hacking training. While there were plenty of interesting topics taught, one that caught my attention was Out-of-Band (OOB) Data Exfiltration using DNS. Back in ...
Apple, Facebook Doxxed Users—via Fake Police EDRs
Hackers have been spoofing email from police forces to steal personal data from big tech companies ...
Fall for Phishing? You Could Get Fired
One in four employees lost their job in the last 12 months after making a mistake that compromised their company’s security, according to a report from email security company Tessian. While the ...
Introduction: What is cloud security?
Cloud security is an aspect of cyber security, sharing similar goals in terms of security and protection. Cloud security in specific includes safeguarding and providing protection over any cloud-based data, cloud computing ...
Agents and Agentless: Better Together
In your effort to collect data access information from your data repositories in order to apply security controls, you don’t have to make the black and white choice to go with agents ...
US, EU Tentatively Agree on Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
On March 25, 2022, the United States and the European Union tentatively agreed to a framework for the protection of the privacy of EU residents, and to act as a workaround from ...
