Category Archives: Cybersecurity Memo – Insiders Edition

Experian’s just released third annual Data Breach Industry Forecast report for 2016 predicts that big hacks will continue to grab the headlines, but small breaches will cause “a lot more damage.” “Whether it’s a true malicious insider, or just employee … Continue reading →

“One popular social engineering trick to entice users to enable macros, is to make the user believe that the document contains secret or confidential information, and that the user needs to take action to reveal this information,” Didier Stevens explained. … Continue reading →

Max Kanter, who created the algorithm as part of his master’s thesis at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), entered the algorithm into three major big data competitions. In a paper to be presented this week at IEEE International Conference … Continue reading →

According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, American victims of online romance scams lost more than $87 million in 2014 (compared with just $50 million in 2011). The intimate details of one woman’s foray into an online relationship that resulted … Continue reading →

nuff said!  it’s all about the data! http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/What-does-a-petabyte-look-like

“The days when firewalls, data backup and antivirus programs provided sufficient protection are over” according to Corey Steele, network security engineer for local voice and data network solutions provider High Point Networks. “A network that’s protected just by a firewall, … Continue reading →

Rather than focusing on stopping cybercriminals with walls, new technologies are emerging that work to identify cybercriminals instead. For example, BioCatch technology works to identify patterns of user behavior in certain applications, creating user profiles that can then be matched … Continue reading →

A recent survey of government cybersecurity professionals found that 86 percent of respondents believe big data analytics could help improve cybersecurity, but only 28 percent are currently fully leveraging big data for security purposes. Amir Orad built his career at … Continue reading →

“All they have to do is work out the car’s IP address and know how to break into its systems and they can take control ” In his disturbing account Greenberg described how the air vents started blasting out cold … Continue reading →

Successful hack attacks often happen not because of tricky coding, but plain old “social engineering” — ie, conning people. The latest version of iOS, 8.3, apparently fails to filter out potentially dangerous HTML code embedded in incoming emails. The researcher’s … Continue reading →