The Role of the Network in Preventing Dyn 2.0
Much has been said about the DDoS attacks on Dyn and the subsequent security issues surrounding IoT devices. In late 2016, hackers exploited hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, such as security cameras and DVRs, to cause massive internet outages over a prolonged period of time. While this attack has resulted in an uproar of…
Why do I care about someone else’s data breach?
Because as the size of your organization increases, the probability that an individual employee’s company email is in that breach rises to 1. That lone employee is going to be suffering some unfortunate impacts, from identity theft, financial scams, blackmail, and even death threats (as seen in the Ashley Madison breach). There’s an organizational impact…
How trolls, hackers and spies are rewriting the rules of conflict
Estonia is a country of around 1.3 million people, facing the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland, it borders Latvia to the south and Russia to the east. After decades as part of the Soviet Union, it regained independence in 1991. But Estonia does not intend to be defined by its past, but is…
A New Mantra For Cybersecurity: ‘Simulate, Simulate, Simulate!’
What security teams can learn from the Apollo 13 space program, a global pandemic, and major infrastructure disruptions to identify their best responses to attacks. Over the long holidays in December (and thanks to the massive California storms) I had the chance to re-watch some great movies, including Apollo 13 – one of my all-time…
IDG Contributor Network: What football teaches us about cybersecurity
This idea of football practice and cybersecurity practice came to me via a conversation with one of my co-workers at Verodin, an SE in Texas named Critt Golden. Critt said it very simply in true Texas succinctness, “In football if you don’t practice you don’t win and in cybersecurity if you don’t practice you don’t…
How Cybercriminals Turn Employees Into Rogue Insiders
The Dark Web is a growing threat to organizations as hackers recruit insiders with access to corporate networks. Cybercriminals are ramping up efforts to recruit employees with access to corporate networks. The Dark Web, which promises anonymity to rogue insiders, is driving that trend.
Ransomware disrupts Washington DC’s CCTV system
About 70 percent of the cameras hooked up to the police’s closed-circuit TV (CCTV) system in Washington, D.C., were reportedly unable to record footage for several days before President Trump’s inauguration due to a ransomware attack. The attack affected 123 of the 187 network video recorders that form the city’s CCTV system, the Washington Post reported…
Fears Grow over Jihadist Cyber Threat
Jihadists have yet to shut down a power grid, paralyze a transport network or banking system or take over a key industrial site from afar, but experts say the threat of such a cyber attack should be taken seriously. Analysts fear that while extremist groups may not have the necessary skills themselves, they could hire…
Will 2017 be the Year IoT Threats Go Mainstream?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we live and work forever. It makes us more productive, healthier and happier, and it enables businesses to work smarter, more efficiently and with greater agility. There’s just one problem: from a security perspective IoT devices are fundamentally flawed. And the bad guys are getting pretty…
JPMorgan Hack: One More Pleads Guilty For Operating Bitcoin Exchange
Ricardo Hill allegedly operated Coin.mx which exchanged millions of dollars into bitcoin to support the hack scheme. Ricardo Hill of Florida has pleaded guilty to being involved in an illegal bitcoin exchange to support a massive hacking scheme disclosed in 2014 that compromised over 83 million JPMorgan account, Reuters reports. Hill, who is one of…