How am I supposed to check Defender’s capability when it trusts me blindly after I mark a test malware file as "allowed"?

With enormous amounts of fighting with Windows/Microsoft Defender, I finally managed to download the "test virus" file from https://www.ikarussecurity.com/en/private-customers/download-test-viruses/ onto my desktop.
However, Defe… Continue reading How am I supposed to check Defender’s capability when it trusts me blindly after I mark a test malware file as "allowed"?

Examining the US Cyber Budget

Jason Healey takes a detailed look at the US federal cybersecurity budget and reaches an important conclusion: the US keeps saying that we need to prioritize defense, but in fact we prioritize attack. To its credit, this budget does reveal an overall g… Continue reading Examining the US Cyber Budget

Examining the US Cyber Budget

Jason Healey takes a detailed look at the US federal cybersecurity budget and reaches an important conclusion: the US keeps saying that we need to prioritize defense, but in fact we prioritize attack. To its credit, this budget does reveal an overall growth in cybersecurity funding of about 5 percent above the fiscal 2019 estimate. However, federal cybersecurity spending on… Continue reading Examining the US Cyber Budget

Senators want Cyber Command and CISA to do more to deter coronavirus-focused hackers

A bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to both the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security on Monday urging them to take more action to defend the U.S. healthcare sector against hackers that have been exploiting the coronavirus pandemic. The senators warned that if Gen. Paul Nakasone, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command, and Christopher Krebs, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), don’t take more action to deter hackers, they will continue to pummel the U.S. healthcare sector will continue to get pummeled with coronavirus hacking campaigns. “Unless we take forceful action to deny our adversaries success and deter them from further exploiting this crisis, we will be inviting further aggression from them and others,” Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Mark Warner, D-Va.; David Perdue, R-Ga.; and Edward Markey, D-Mass. write. “The cybersecurity threat to our stretched and stressed medical and public health systems should […]

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What is the best way to mitigate malicious bot traffic on a Node Express server?

My public website is getting a lot of get requests to endpoints like “wp-login.php”, “.env”, “.git/HEAD” and many others. This seems to be a non-trivial portion of my website’s traffic and I’d like to discourage it or at least reduce its i… Continue reading What is the best way to mitigate malicious bot traffic on a Node Express server?