UK Government to Launch PR Campaign Undermining End-to-End Encryption
Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily...
When It comes to Cybersecurity – An ounce of prevention
Benjamin Franklin advised fire-threatened Philadelphians in 1736 that, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Clearly, preventing fires is better than fighting...
Collective resilience: Why CISOs are embracing a new culture of openness
Security exec Chad Kliewer had heard the initial reports of the SolarWinds attack as news about it broke in December 2020, sympathetic to those companies...
Three recent events prove the need for an insider risk playbook
Every company, regardless of size, should have an insider risk management playbook in place to address the insider threat. The human factor is always in...
Critical Patches Issued for Microsoft Products, May 11, 2021
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged...
Black Hat, White Hat, Gray Hat, Script Kiddies – Who they are?
The term hacker often takes on a negative connotation. In the past, we often focused on the distinction between a hacker, a person with deep...
An Examination of the Bug Bounty Marketplace
Here’s a fascinating report: “Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace.” From a summary: …researchers Ryan Ellis and Yuan Stevens provide...
The emotional stages of a data breach: How to deal with panic, anger, and guilt
It usually happens on a Friday afternoon, at around 4 or 5 p.m. Admins and security experts receive a message telling them that something weird...
A bad day in the office for the REvil ransomware gang, as Russia arrests 14 members
While data-wiping malware is hitting the PCs of multiple Ukrainian organisations, Russia has taken the surprising step of arresting 14 members of the REvil ransomware...
Data-wiping malware hitting Ukrainian computers displays fake ransom demand
Someone is targeting Windows computers in Ukraine with malware, and for some reason they want it to look like ransomware. Read More