Category Archives: Ars Technica

10/1/18: Dtex, Insider Threat, Privacy News: Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month! CEO Christy Wyatt Reveals Trusted Insider Strategy, Provides How To for Insider Negligence; Five Years Post Snowden, NSA Insiders Still Removing Classified Data

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Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Every year the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses October to highlight awareness for the importance of cybersecurity. The collaborative effort between the public and private sector is desi… Continue reading 10/1/18: Dtex, Insider Threat, Privacy News: Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month! CEO Christy Wyatt Reveals Trusted Insider Strategy, Provides How To for Insider Negligence; Five Years Post Snowden, NSA Insiders Still Removing Classified Data→

How Google Took on Mirai, KrebsOnSecurity

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The third week of September 2016 was a dark and stormy one for KrebsOnSecurity. Wave after wave of huge denial-of-service attacks flooded this site, forcing me to pull the plug on it until I could secure protection from further assault. The site resurfaced three days later under the aegis of Google’s Project Shield, an initiative which seeks to protect journalists and news sites from being censored by these crippling digital sieges.

Damian Menscher, a Google security engineer with whom I worked very closely on the migration to Project Shield, spoke publicly for the first time this week about the unique challenges involved in protecting a small site like this one from very large, sustained and constantly morphing attacks. Continue reading How Google Took on Mirai, KrebsOnSecurity→

Dell to Customers: Report ‘Service Tag’ Scams

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Computer maker Dell is asking for help in an ongoing probe into the source of customer information that appears to have somehow landed in the laps of fraudsters posing as Dell computer support technicians. KrebsOnSecurity readers continue to report being called by scammers posing as Dell support personnel who offer “proof” that they’re with Dell by rattling off the unique Dell “service tag” code printed on each Dell customer’s PC or laptop, as well as information from any previous (legitimate) service issues the customer may have had with Dell. Continue reading Dell to Customers: Report ‘Service Tag’ Scams→