We occasionally get requests from other writers who want to post on our blog. This is one of those times. Thanks to Panda Security for this infographic. To read the accompanying article, please click through to their site.
Today we feature another guest post from Kim Turner.
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Today we have a “guest post” from US-CERT. I really like this article of theirs and I am simply reposting it for my own readers. This is a great checklist, even for computers already connected to the Internet.
Because computers play such critical roles in our ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Everyone else has reported this Christmas gem, why shouldn’t we? NASA engineer Mark Rober “over-engineered the crap” out of it, including motion detection, geofencing, and 4 cameras to record some priceless reactions. Here is the YouTube video.
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We have been investigating Russian cyber-attacks this week. Today we publish a timeline of Russian cyber-activities. In the interest of space, I am publishing just the timeline with little descriptive content. I have included a download link to a PDF and spreadsheet of the timeline with more detail, and links to sources.
Notice how these cyber attacks started out in 2004 as small, ...
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It seems that hardly a week goes by without some new cyber-attack being attributed to Fancy Bear, Cozy Bear, Grizzly Steppe, or some other cute-sounding Russian hacker collective. One the one hand, we have the DHS, FBI, and US-CERT attributing these attacks to the Russians. There are others, including those working in the cybersecurity profession, that are suggesting that the attackers are not agents of the Russian government, but merely ...
Have you ever wondered why the state of cybersecurity is so screwed up? Why is it so easy for bad actors and cyber-criminals to hijack systems and steal information? Would you be surprised to learn the answer is because we designed it that way? Computers, networks, operating systems and software were designed to work together as easily as possible, and were inherently “trusted” by each other. In the beginning, most ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.This entry was posted in Research, Wordfence, WordPress Security on December 5, 2018
The Defiant Threat Intelligence team recently began tracking the behavior of an organized brute force attack campaign against WordPress sites. This campaign has created a botnet of infected WordPress websites to perform its attacks, ...
Continue Reading →Netherlands security company Black Box Security was raided by the Dutch Police and shuttered on suspicion of money laundering and operating a criminal enterprise. Black Box was the inventor of the Iron Phone and the Iron Chat app. Together, they were supposed to provide an unbreakable encrypted chat service. This service became a popular favorite among cyber and other criminals.
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Do the web sites your frequently visit offer two-factor authentication? Have you enabled 2FA where it is available to you? Is the particular implementation of 2FA or MFA security really adding any extra protection for you? Not sure? Please read on.
Password management company Dashlane recently ranked 34 of the top websites for their implementation of two-factor or multi-factor authentication options for ...
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