Hey, when I spend several hundred dollars and two days of my time to attend a cybersecurity conference, a guy like me hopes he can milk a few blog articles out of it. Here is the third (so far.)
Most of these nuggets came from a keynote titled “2016 Cyber Attacks By The Numbers” presented by Kevin Thompson, a former CIA analyst and now a threat analysis for the cybersecurity firm FireEye. Very eye-opening.
Primary Attack Vectors
- Spearphishing with ...
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