This year at RSA, I saw many vendors offering “deceptive defense” solutions. Whether folks were buying them is another matter. The concept of using deception in warfare goes back to the dawn of time. Thousands of years ago, Sun Tzu wrote that “all warfare is based on deception.”1 IT deception as a hacking defense has…
Read MoreNo matter how application-savvy you are, it should be fairly obvious that this is not a typical Content-Type header for an HTTP request. According to the RFC, Content-Type is usually of the form “type/subtype”7. This leviathan contains a valid Content-Type header in the very first line—multipart/form-data—but even a rudimentary BNF parser would flag this as a…
Read MoreThird parties such as outsourced service providers and SaaS vendors are a fact of life in the IT world. It’s the nature of a hyper-connected world where hundreds (if not thousands) of applications are required to run even a modestly sized organization. There is no alternative but to trust a third party with access to…
Read MoreThose of us with experience in IT security know there are some risks we just can’t mitigate. In such cases, many of us seek out risk transference through cyber insurance. Case in point: When a well-financed mercenary hacking team overwhelms our defenses, we need a remedy to make us whole and keep the business afloat.…
Read MoreA DNS amplification attack floods the victim’s server with a tsunami of fake requests. DNS Hijacking Who owns what domain name and what DNS servers are designated to answer queries are managed by Domain Registrars8. These are commercial services, such as GoDaddy, eNom, and Network Solutions Inc., where there are registered accounts storing this information.…
Read MoreFigure 1: CVE-2017-5638 campaign The exploit triggers the vulnerability via the Content-Type header value, which the attacker customized with shell commands to be executed if the server is vulnerable. In the first days of this campaign, shell commands were observed to infect the machine with the “PowerBot” malware, which is written in PERL, and uses…
Read MoreBeyond the overall status of the program, you need be able explain cyber risk in terms that executives can understand. Keep it simple and remember this important nuance: many people don’t realize that risk has two components: likelihood and impact. For example, some people tend to react to catastrophic impacts (what are we doing…
Read MoreOne of the weakest links in our cyber defenses is the human factor. The (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Trends Report for 2017 stated that cybersecurity professionals are most concerned about phishing attacks.1 But phishing is just one of many social engineered attacks mediated by technology. Now we are seeing an upswing in virtual kidnapping scams. How the Scam Works…
Read MoreMarcher targets focused on European, Australian, and Latin American banks, along with PayPal, eBay, Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, Gmail, and Yahoo—all in the month of March. Source link lol
Read MoreBefore you can go beyond something, you have to get there first. The perimeter’s imminent demise has been forecast by any number of people and, to a certain extent, they have a point. Once you start placing lots of gates in your fence and move half your livestock outside of it, you start to wonder…
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