Ransomware is a scourge of evil – turning all of your data useless. from NetworkWorld Unfortunately this is a typical message(which are getting more sophisticated – attackers are allowing one file to be decrypted) Here is a Cryptolocker 2.0 message Fortunately not all ransomware actually works as prescribed. Here are just a … Read more
Put another way if everyone keeps saying being PCI compliant does not mean being secure, where exactly does this occur – the failure of PCI compliance? One major difference is that PCI compliance does not cover security breaches outside of credit card number information. The law covers notifications of security breaches on Personally Identifiable Information … Read more
Increasing attacks on networks are targeted attacking specific industries. The focus is on the wording, malware, spam, and click baits. This makes sense since if the easiest attacks are against users and the attacker depends on people either clicking on spam email or clicking on some website link that is laced with malware. The malware … Read more
From Wikipedia. The problem is, Cybersecurity seems easy to those of us in the Security field (just like the above game) but yet the strategy is hard when we try to explain to an Executive immersed in their regular world. Cyberstrategy is also not so cut and dried. The hackers are attacking old … Read more
If you ask me the President of RSA had the best keynote at the RSA conference in San Francisco: http://www.rsaconference.com/media/escaping-securitys-dark-ages I have collected the images from the video link above: Talk was titled ” We are Living in Security’s Dark Ages” There is a lot in the 30 minute video, I recommend that if you … Read more