Collaborate Disseminate
It wasn’t just the SolarWinds supply-chain hack. There were other ways that the “Russian” hackers broke into countless government agencies and private organizations.
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In their attempt to extort as much money as quickly as possible out of companies, ransomware gangs know some effective techniques to get the full attention of a firm’s management team. And one of them is to specifically target the sensitive information… Continue reading Ransomware Gangs Scavenge for Sensitive Data by Targeting Top Executives
WhatsApp is forcing users to agree to a new pile of data-sharing legalese. But that’s exactly what it promised not to do.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and governmental movement restrictions have led to an increased dependency on online services for individuals and businesses alike. Cybercriminals quickly identified this trend as an opportunity for gaining profits. They responded… Continue reading Lesson from Lockdowns: Crucial to Scale-Up Cybersecurity Services
As a cybersecurity professional, how numb have you become to vendors who try to scare you with frightening statistics in an effort to sell you a new product? It is understandable that a vendor has to present as much information in a limited amount of a… Continue reading Fighting Cybercrime: We Are Stronger Together than We Are Individually
Unbelievable! But true. The enormous hack, purportedly by Russia (per Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others), of major U.S. government agencies and the U.S.’s biggest corporations—apparently some 18,000 organizations according to the software maker… Continue reading Solar Winds Blow Hard
A suspected nation-state sophisticated cyber-attack of SolarWinds which led to the distribution of a tainted version the SolarWinds Orion network monitoring tool, compromising their customers, dominated the cyber headlines in mid-December 2020. This w… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for January 2021
Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. It wasn’t a cyberattack in international relations terms, it was espionage. And the victim wasn’t just the US,… Continue reading Russia’s SolarWinds Attack
Article by Beau Peters
The movie industry is infamous for its loose depictions of hacking and cybersecurity. Hollywood often gets a lot wrong about hacking and digital protections, but what does it get right?
The power of film in influencing the futur… Continue reading Fact vs. Fiction: Film Industry’s Portrayal of Cybersecurity
The NSO Group sells hacking paraphernalia to oppressive regimes. Its Pegasus tool set has been caught hacking journalists.
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