Private forums increase transmission of knowledge by malicious actors Malicious actors use online discussion forums to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, often out of the public’s eye. In this blog, we study the transmission of knowledge that takes place on … Read More
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Business of Sending Spam
Business of Sending Spam While malicious actors have developed countless attack methods, spam remains to this day a significant threat vector for companies. The most recent statistics on spam are indicative of the danger that spam poses: 95% of all … Read More
Why your team should be concerned about leaky buckets on the internet
Why your team should be concerned about leaky buckets on the internet Since its inception in March 2006, AWS cloud storage option, also referred to as S3 (Simple Storage Service), has generated keen interest due to its low maintenance and … Read More
What kind of data could your PDF files be leaking online?
What kind of data could your PDF files be leaking online? In the 2003 timeframe leading up to the Iraq war, a British government representative published a Word document on their website, containing information related to “Iraq’s security and intelligence … Read More
All Is Fair In Darknet Wars
All Is Fair In Darknet Wars For anyone trying to collect data on the darknet, the last three years have been an incredible challenge. The dark net used to be a collection of simple marketplaces that could be easily indexed … Read More
Shodan: How We Evaluate Risk and Prioritize Alerts
Shodan: How We Evaluate Risk and Prioritize Alerts Monitoring open ports on Shodan can sound simple, but the reality is that there is a lot of data which regularly changes. Having yet another source that generates multiple alerts is not … Read More
How online learning may have opened the door for ransomware in higher ed
How Online Learning May Have Opened the Door for Ransomware in Higher Ed PYSA ransomware, a variant of Mespinoza ransomware, has been actively targeting the education sector in the past months. According to the FBI, ransomware, malware and DDoS attacks … Read More
F.B.I. Reveals 70% Year-Over-Year Increase in Reported Cybercrime
F.B.I. Reveals 70% Year-Over-Year Increase in Reported Cybercrime The F.B.I. has just published its latest report on cybercrime complaints it received in 2020. The picture drawn should raise concerns for most CISOs, and unfortunately raises even more questions than providing … Read More
Renting A Canadian Bot for Less than the Price of Dinner for Two
Renting A Canadian Bot for Less than the Price of Dinner for Two A botnet is a network of computers infected with malware that allows a malicious actor – the botmaster – to control them remotely. The infected computers – … Read More
How Long Have You Thought about Backup Management this Month?
How Long Have You Thought about Backup Management this Month? We all know we should have backups. It’s not a task we particularly love doing, and it is definitely something that we forget to do unless automated. How many people … Read More