We use the internet for day-to-day activities from work to play to shopping under the assumption that security experts are keeping us safe from cybercriminals. But those security experts are already stretched thin — and the situation promises to get worse as cyber security skills grow thinner. The nonprofit group ISACA predicts Read more…
“Just a matter of time” before 9/11 Cyber Attack – cyber security expert The Cyber Attack Era: Modern network-connected infrastructure is very vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to digital strategy consultant and cyberterrorism expert Lars Hilse, who talked to Sputnik about the risks of online terrorism and crime Hilse, who warned Read more…
Russian Hacker; Peter Yuryevich Levashov, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in U.S. federal court in Connecticut to computer crime, wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges. Levashov, a Russian hacker also known by many online aliases including Peter Severa, Peter Levashov, Petr Severa and Sergey Astakhov, has Read more…
Cyber Minute with Lori Stroud Interview Focus: How did you get your Cyber-Start? Interviewing cyber security professionals to reveal streams that brought them to cyber security industry an interview project by InfoHacker. These interview series will capture how cyber professionals came onto the cyber scene to highlight the variety of Read more…
What do we currently know about SCADA and ICS Cyber Threats? What are the SCADA-Specific Malwares out there and how vulnerable are industrial targets? Overview of SCADA systems In one of the most important sectors of cyber security is what most people NOT in security rarely hear about. SCADA (Supervisory Read more…
Analysts in the security operations center (SOC) have long been overwhelmed with the noise coming from the increasing number of alerts. According to Demisto’s second annual State of SOAR Report, alerts are on the rise, leaving today’s security teams bombarded with 174,000 per week. The report found that security teams were only able Read more…
Over 90% Of HTTPS Servers Are Vulnerable To MITM Attacks Only 1 in 20 HTTPS servers correctly implements HTTP Strict Transport Security, a widely-supported security feature that prevents visitors making unencrypted HTTP connections to a server. The remaining 95% are therefore vulnerable to trivial connection hijacking attacks, which can be exploited Read more…
Definition Of SCADA Security Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) networks are widely used in modern industrial organizations to monitor and analyze real-time data, control both local and remote industrial processes, interact with devices, and log data and events for auditing and other purposes. Because SCADA networks are vital to Read more…
DNC officials and Lookout believed a spoofed site was built to harvest authentication details for the Democratic voter database. A day after the Democratic National Committee riled up security researchers and the press, it’s walking back an assertion that there was an attempt to compromise its voter database. Though Read more…
APT10 Under Close Scrutiny as Potentially Linked to Chinese Ministry of State Security An advanced threat actor has been associated with China’s Ministry of State Security via two individuals and a Chinese firm. Researchers claim that APT10, a likely China-based threat actor, is believed directly connected to the Chinese Read more…