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Hacking Back: Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right
Here’s the critical issue: Do you want to risk engaging your company in an ego-fueled war of revenge, or do you want to cut the bad guys off at the pass?
Researchers Use Heat To Breach Air-Gapped Systems
BitWhisper project is part of ongoing air gap security research at Israel's Ben-Gurion University.
Context: Finding The Story Inside Your Security Operations Program
What’s missing in today’s chaotic, alert-driven incident response queue is the idea of a narrative that provides a detailed understanding of how an attack actually unfolds.
Healthcare Breaches Like Premera First Stage Of Bigger Attacks?
With three new healthcare breaches announced this week, but no reported misuse of stolen data, what plans might attackers have for the identity records they pilfered from CHS, Anthem, Premera and others?
Hackers Breaking New Ground With Ransomware
The tools and tactics being used to go after victims reveal growing sophistication, and gamers need to look out, security researchers say.
Deconstructing Threat Models: 3 Tips
There is no one-size-fits-all approach for creating cyber threat models. Just be flexible and keep your eye on the who, what, why, how and when.
Equation Group Cyberspying Activity May Date Back To The '90s
New Kaspersky Lab findings show how the 'master APT' nation-state group likely the longest-running cyber espionage gang of all, and newly discovered code artifacts include English-language clues.
6 Ways The Sony Hack Changes Everything
Security in a post-Sony world means that a company's very survival in the wake of a cyber attack is more of a concern than ever before.
Startup Focuses On Stopping Data Exfiltration
Former Akamai and Imperva exec heads up new security firm enSilo, launches an operating system-level endpoint security tool.
FREAK Out: Yet Another New SSL/TLS Bug Found
Old-school, export-grade crypto standard used until the 1990s can be triggered to downgrade security of client, servers, researchers find.
Compliance & Security: A Race To The Bottom?
Compliance is meaningless if organizations don’t use it as a starting point to understand and mitigate risks within their environment.
What You Need To Know About Nation-State Hacked Hard Drives
The nation-state Equation Group compromise of most popular hard drives won't be a widespread threat, but future disk security -- and forensic integrity -- remain unclear.
Why Security Awareness Alone Won’t Stop Hackers
End-user training is a noble pursuit but it’s no defense against “low and slow” attacks that take months and years to carry out.
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Everything You Need to Know About DNS AttacksIt's important to understand DNS, potential attacks against it, and the tools and techniques required to defend DNS infrastructure. This report answers all the questions you were afraid to ask.
Domain Name Service (DNS) is a critical part of any organization's digital infrastructure, but it's also one of the least understood. DNS is designed to be invisible to business professionals, IT stakeholders, and many security professionals, but DNS's threat surface is large and widely targeted.
Attackers are causing a great deal of damage with an array of attacks such as denial of service, DNS cache poisoning, DNS hijackin, DNS tunneling, and DNS dangling. They are using DNS infrastructure to take control of inbound and outbound communications and preventing users from accessing the applications they are looking for. To stop attacks on DNS, security teams need to shore up the organization's security hygiene around DNS infrastructure, implement controls such as DNSSEC, and monitor DNS traffic
Incident Readiness and Building Response Playbook
In this special report, learn the Xs and Os of any good security incident readiness and response playbook.
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