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The Realm of Threat Intelligence – Journey from the past into an Advanced SOC

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Using Intelligence to gather information on your adversary is not a new concept, Military and Government Agencies have been involved gathering information to use against their opponents since the days of Sun-Tzu and Chanakya. Cyber Intelligence has also been the domain for Government agencies like the UK’s GCHQ and the US’s NSA for many years;…

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The Era of Proportional Ransomware Has Arrived

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According to the FBI the incursion of ransomware has just gone from bad to worse. In a recent alert, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that recent ransomware variants have targeted and compromised vulnerable business servers to identify and target hosts, thereby multiplying the number of potential infected servers and devices on a network. More…

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Planning for a Breach Crisis

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If your company doesn’t have a crisis communication function, and doesn’t have a breach readiness plan, in the event of a public security incident it’s highly likely you will be the one everyone looks at when the CEO says ‘now what do we do?’ How do we manage the media? What do we tell customers, analysts, investors?…

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Faster Threat Detection through Shared Intelligence: RSA NetWitness Endpoint Now Supports RSA Live Connect

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In a previous life, I remember spending time at a company’s co-location facility where many organizations hosted their production and testing environments.  There was a shared workspace, and I remember having quite a few conversations with industry peers about various topics.  Not surprisingly, the one topic that came up more frequently than others was security…

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The Gap of Grief

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How bad is it? When a security incident occurs, how confident are you that you can explain the impact to the rest of the organization in language that they understand? Despite all the money we have invested in security, it’s still too difficult to put security details in business context fast enough. When you can’t,…

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The Realm of Threat Intelligence – It’s all about the Packets, or is it?

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Full Packet Capture (FPC), those three little words are enough to make most security analyst salivate at the prospect of finding and detecting attacks. Back in the days before anyone realized that you could build an Intrusion Prevention System to actually stop attacks, the Intrusion Detection System was king. If you were very lucky you…

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Credential Checking Services Soar in Popularity on Dark Web

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If you’ve ever needed another reason to not recycle your passwords, I give you Sentry MBA. Although the tool has been around for a couple of years, it has recently been soaring in popularity among those in the fraud community which is no surprise with more than 1.5 billion consumer credentials breached so far this year. The…

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Landscape Lighting that Also Texts

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Your local hardware store or garden supply center probably has everything you need to install landscape lighting all around your property. What’s a little less likely is coming out of that situation with fewer holes in your wallet than in your yard. And even then, it’s pretty much guaranteed that any off-the-shelf equipment won’t send you a text message when your landscape lighting isn’t working properly. [Mark]’s landscape lighting system does, though!

Powered by a Raspberry Pi, this landscape lighting system has every feature imaginable. It can turn the lighting on at sunset and turn it off at a set …read more

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