America’s Data Held Hostage is the name of the just-released report by the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security. The report provides a profile of three anonymous companies of varying sizes …
Richer and Becker on Domestic Terrorism, Cyber, China, Iran, Russia, and Decision-Making
In February of this year, Matt Devost spoke to Rob Richer, a highly regarded advisor to international executives and global government leaders including several heads of state. Rob has a well-informed …
Cyber Threat Analysis Report Volume 1 Edition 11
People Are Your Best First Defense Teaching your people to recognize when someone is trying to pull a fast one is a hotly debated topic in security. There is value in it to be sure, but the …
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Cyber Threat Analysis Report Vol 1, Edition 10
No Technology Can Replace Wetware A lot of malicious activity succeeds because it first exploits a human being, and then technology. This isn’t a call to burn your security tools, but a reminder that …
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Cyber Threat Analysis Report Vol 1, Edition 9
Your City is Not Ready for Ransomware 20 (and growing) cities in Texas shut down thanks to ransomware. Baltimore taking $6M in funds from other city programs to pay for their ransomware attack. We’ve …
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Cyber Threat Analysis Report Vol 1, Edition 9
A Forlorn Hope No matter how much you try to spin it, cybersecurity is a cost. You can implement cheap or even free solutions to address a wide range of problems, but there has yet to be a …
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Cyber Threat Analysis Report Vol 1, Edition 8
Everyone with a Computer is a Target What you do, where you’re at, how technical or ‘sophisticated’ you are means nothing to malicious actors these days. Those might have been conditions they …
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Cyber Threat Analysis Report Vol 1, Edition 8
Privacy for me but not for thee News of the fact that federal law enforcement is exploiting a little-known law (not envisioned for use in cases like this) to mine state driver’s license images and …
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Employees Share Average of 6 Passwords With Co-Workers
A recent study by LastPass measured that the average employee shares 6 passwords with their coworkers. Workers are also still regularly re-using passwords across work and private domains, as well as …
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Fileless Malware Attacks on the Rise, Microsoft Says
"Fileless malware attacks, or incidents where the malicious payload doesn’t touch the disk, but is executed directly in memory instead, are on the rise, Microsoft says. Attacks that leverage fileless …
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