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Cybersecurity breaches and regulatory compliance are this year’s themes. Marriott was sued and fined $124 million for their data breach back in 2014, according to The Wall Street Journal. Capital One leaked 100 million credit applications includi… Continue reading Staving Off the Monetary Consequences of a Data Breach
The instant a device is connected to the internet, it gets scanned and interrogated for open ports, software versions, and default passwords. Who conducts these scans and why? When you connect to the internet, what kind of attacks will you immediately … Continue reading BSidesLV Preview: Who Watches the Watchers?: Understanding the Internet’s Background Noise
The instant a device is connected to the internet, it gets scanned and interrogated for open ports, software versions, and default passwords. Who conducts these scans and why? When you connect to the internet, what kind of attacks will you immediately … Continue reading BSidesLV Preview: Who Watches the Watchers?: Understanding the Internet’s Background Noise
The famed bank robber Willie Sutton once said “I rob banks because that’s where the money is.” These days, botnet operators would say the same thing about retail sites and marketplaces. The nexus of fraud activity has shifted away fro… Continue reading BSidesLV Preview: Fighting Fraud in the Trenches
Even if you don’t store your tax data in financial software yourself, chances are your CPA or tax preparer does. Have you ever wondered what kind of software or security procedures your trusted advisor has in place to protect your name, address, … Continue reading BSidesLV Preview: Your Taxes are Being Leaked
Machine learning algorithms are increasingly a target for the bad guys – but the industry is working to stop them, explains Sophos chief data scientist Joshua Saxe Continue reading Where are the holes in machine learning – and can we fix them?
At $400, the Philadelphia ransomware kit isn’t cheap – but crooks buying it will get a lot of bang for their buck, as we’ve discovered from digging in to how it works Continue reading Philadelphia RaaS: our map of how it works (and how to prevent it)
Adding a slice of LIME to machine learning can take it from the ‘what’ to the why’ Continue reading For better machine-based malware analysis, add a slice of LIME
Dropping in to BSidesLV while you’re in Vegas? Come and see our data scientists talk about machine learning and the threats there – we’d love to say hi Continue reading BSidesLV: What’s on the agenda in Las Vegas