Internet already being weaponized – US cyberattack on Iran won’t help Cyber-warfare suddenly went public late last month. Multiple media outlets reported that President Donald Trump had authorized U.S. Cyber Command to conduct a cyberstrike on Iran. Obviously, this isn’t the first such attack by a nation, or even by Read more…
A Trial Using Support Vector Machines By: Lori Cole, Threat Intelligence Consultant at Recorded Future. Event Classification in Firewall Logs: TLDR – I attempt to create evidence of classification mechanisms informed by high confidence data models to characterize events captured in firewall logs. I fail a lot, but that’s the key Read more…
Classifying Actionable Cyber Threat Intelligence By: Lori Cole, Threat Intelligence Consultant at Recorded Future TLDR: A decision tree bagging ensemble model was the most accurate in classifying actionable cyber threat intelligence. Why? My guess: bagging builds a forest of decision tree models each using a different slice of the training Read more…
Small Businesses Are Prime Targets Cyber espionage is one of the most pressing cybersecurity risks for small businesses. These attacks are designed to steal data, but many believe they are immune to these attacks because they don’t own a great deal of valuable data. Despite that, one in five U.S. Read more…
Attacks against automated teller machines (ATMs) are nothing new, for obvious reasons. They are a perfect target for both conventional thieves and hackers, standing at the intersection of physical theft and cyber crime. Particularly in the developing world, ATMs often lack basic cybersecurity precautions, with archaic operating systems and minimal Read more…
Amazon offers just about everything to consumers nowadays. With just a click of a mouse (or a verbal command to Alexa), you can have any number of things delivered to your home in just a couple of days — or even the same day. Amazon also offers cloud products and Read more…
If I had to bet that your home WIFI network had vulnerabilities that could be hacked in under 10 minutes, I would make the bet with high stakes. Small businesses also fall under this statistic. It is estimated that over 78% of consumer household routers have malware infected in the Read more…
Malware and social engineering are the top two types of cyber crime methods businesses have to face. Here’s how to prevent these attacks from hurting your business. Each quarter, the security firm Positive Technologies releases statistics on the most common types of cyber crime based on their internal data. The numbers from Read more…
Elliptic curve cryptography is the most advanced cryptographic system available. Now ProtonMail is making this technology available to all users. For several months, we have been working to implement support for new cryptographic methods in ProtonMail that give users a faster experience with equal or better security. Today, we’re excited Read more…
Today, the most common web application attacks are exceeding network attacks, due to the fact that web applications have more vulnerabilities and user/client side errors, making them easier to penetrate and access. Injection Attacks Common User Input attacks that have been around forever and are extremely common place. If you Read more…