Obscuring malicious Facebook links using the Open Graph Protocol
Most users click on links popping up in their Facebook News Feed without thinking twice about it, but it’s good to keep in mind that they can lead to malicious sites. Here’s an example of one flagged by the SANS ISC (Internet Storm Center):
Black Hat 2017: Insightful, but too much hype
Like many others in the cybersecurity community, I attended Black Hat in Las Vegas last week. Here are a few of my thoughts on the show: 1. This was the 20th edition of Black Hat, and it was absolutely packed. I’ve heard that attendance was up from last year, and I know that 2016 attendance…
It’s time for security leaders to challenge dogma
What are the key elements of a good security program? Why did you answer that way? Seems a lot of security is ‘handed-down’ knowledge. We pride data and evidence-driven decisions while suggesting security is too hard to measure and pin down. Curious, no?
The 5 biggest ransomware attacks of the last 5 years
While the last few years have seen a remarkable uptick in this particularly nasty genre of attack software, ransomware isn’t new. Malware that holds data for ransom has been around for years. In 1991, a biologist spread PC Cyborg, the first ever ransomware, by sending floppy disks via surface mail to other AIDS researchers, for…
Five new threats to your mobile device security
A decade ago, mobile malware was considered a new and unlikely threat. Many mobile device users even considered themselves immune from such threats. Fast forward to 2017, and more than 1.5 million new incidents of mobile malware have been detected by McAfee Labs in the first quarter of the year alone – for a total…