Verizon: “Most Breaches Trace to Phishing, Social Engineering
Breaches Trace to Phishing, Social Engineering. BankInfoSecurity wrote: “90% of data breaches seen by Verizon’s data breach investigation team have a phishing or social engineering component to them. Not coincidentally, one of the hottest commodities on underground or dark web marketplaces are credentials, which attackers can use to log into enterprises and make it appear that […]
Scary new malware
Scary new malware hides in memory, uses DNS Want to see if Cybriant is right for you? Try a no-risk free trial today! Scary new malware hides in memory, uses DNS to communicate, and spreads through phishing Cisco has a separate threat research group called Talos. They just published a report on a scary new form […]
Scam Of The Week: Mystery Shopper Scam Email
Becoming a mystery shopper can seem like a dream job – getting paid to shop! However, a new mystery shopper scam is circulating that may leave you feeling duped. The scam begins by having mystery shoppers apply for a mystery shopping test on an illegitimate website posing as an official mystery shopping company. While […]
Cloudbleed, Cloud Pets, and More…
It turns out that if you crawl enough of the Internet, pages start bleeding into one another. At least that’s the case for Google Security Researcher, Tavis Ormandy, who discovered a severe flaw in Cloudflare’s service. The flaw, eerily reminiscent of the infamous Heartbleed bug, resulted in revealing uninitialized memory containing sensitive information ranging from […]
2017 Top 10 IT Security Trends
I have been looking at the coming year and what trends you will probably see actually deployed in your network. These trends are the practical things that will help you to keep your network safer with improved defense-in-depth. A move from being defensive to a more proactive approach to IT security, for instance, application […]
