Tag: data leakage

If Shakespeare were alive today (and blogging), he might have written about the latest vulnerability to sweep the Internet by pointing out: Hath not the cloud interfaces, code, logic, data? Accessed with the same protocols, exploited with the same weapons, subject to the same vulnerabilities, mitigated by the same solutions, patched by the same methods…

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Threat intelligence is mainstreaming into a de-facto everyday tool of cyber-defense. But all that intelligence must be collected, analyzed, and prepared by someone. Enter threat researchers, the advanced scouts of cybersecurity. They are becoming more numerous and conspicuous as more intelligence on illicit hacker activity is demanded. Threat researchers trawl through the dark web, pick…

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Hidden Malware, Crouching Ransom One reason ransomware can appear to strike so quickly is because you only notice it once it’s too late. “Just because they’re in your network doesn’t mean you’ll see them,” notes Peck. “Ransomware and attackers often linger long before the ransomware goes active and begins encrypting your data.” The ransomware may…

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