DHS has seen a proliferation of ransomware attacks, prompting an alert into how the malware is spreading and ways all organizations can protect the enterprise and contain the virus. September 09, 2019 – The Department of Homeland Security is once again alerting all sectors to the rapidly increasing threat of ransomware attacks. Officials have shared FireEye research Read more…
The National Security Agency (NSA) has announced its intention to create a cybersecurity directorate this fall in a bid to defend the U.S. against foreign adversaries. It comes at a time of increasing election interference by foreign nations such as Russia as part of an ongoing strategy to destabilize the West. According 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…
There were 4.7 million incidents of fraud and computer misuse in the 12 months to September 2017, a 15% decrease from the previous year, according to the latest crime figures for England and Wales. Fraud fell from 3.6 million in 2016 to 3.2 million incidents in 2017, while computer misuse dropped from Read more…
NCTOC Top 5 Security Operations Center (SOC) Principles Cybersecurity operations top 5 principles…NSA’s Cybersecurity Threat Operations Center (NCTOC) serves as the focal point for execution of the agency’s 24/7/365 cybersecurity operations mission. NCTOC leverages unique insights into adversary intentions and tradecraft to develop and implement strategic defense measures for the 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…