We are currently in a specific current events “stream”. I don’t really want to talk about “the event”, except for the fact is that no matter of a specific ‘event’ there will be scammers creating new attack points using the current news. The news in this case is so hyped up that it may […]
I.e. No More Netflix?? DefenseOne has the story: So as we are now all at home with our dogs, cats and families. Are we more or less susceptible with a massive DDOS attack from Russia? DDOS = Distributed Denial Of Service We have discussed DDOS attacks before “New DDOS Attacks Changes Likelihood in Risk […]
Some cartoons this Friday 03/20/2020: The joke always is that Defcon “is cancelled” a few months before the event. But the joke is now on Defcon organizers – The Event is “really cancelled”!! “We are not joking” says the head organizer grand poobah. “We meant to make it more formal, but were not sure how […]
There are many examples of high Cybersecurity risk tolerance – which show the executives not paying attention to Cybersecurity professionals until it is too late. Darkreading has another article on Cybersecurity burnout. The issue is the long hours many Security professionals have to perform and the general thankless jobs as they try to convince executives […]
Is it Ransomware with a shotgun approach? A shotgun approach means the attackers are sending ransomware attacks to many computers – not picking their targets, only spreading out to whatever computer will answer a certain defense profile. Or ransomware that is targeted to specific industries? Will the ransomware attacker pick on a specific industry that […]