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 […]
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 […]
Do NOT Pay Attention to Security – Fix Problems If they Come There are a few people who would rather not pay attention to security – and do the absolute minimum with regards to PCI compliance or other compliance and regulations. It will only be after a major attack that the attention of the executives […]
Risks Evolve over time Vulnerabilities evolve over time as threat growsExample: Wannacry ransomware campaign Short answer is NO! Since risks evolve -risks and vulnerabilities are always changing! Even if one could solve all the current vulnerabilities and install the updates everywhere to all of your software and hardware, there would still be new vulnerabilities […]