The risks of cybersecurity are more complex than ever The risks of cybersecurity are more complex than ever. Due to the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), by 2020 every person will generate 1.7 megabytes of information per second. As new technologies evolve, cyber criminals adapt and discover Read more…
The Current State of Cyber Warfare This article sets the stage for a discussion of cyber warfare with concise definitions of the main concepts, followed by descriptions of new risks and current responses. Some of the major controversies in Cyber War debate are also presented and critically discussed. The conclusion Read more…
Saudi authorities detected a new destructive cyberattack suspected of coming from Iran on Dec. 29. On the same day the U.S. military struck targets controlled by Iranian-backed proxies in retaliation for a rocket attack that killed an American contractor the previous Friday. Officials in Riyadh, who nicknamed the malware “Dustman,” did not Read more…
Today’s hackers are attacking a lot more than just computers. They’re going after Internet of Things (IoT) products – like internet-connected cameras, lights, smart tv’s and refrigerators and using them to create havoc on the internet. In October, hackers used the “Mirai” malware to attack unsecured IoT devices, turning them 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…
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…