Bad Botnet Growth Skyrockets in 2017
There was a 37% increase in botnet command-and-control (C&C) listings in 2017, with the majority (68%) of them being hosted on servers run by threat actors.
Day: January 10, 2018
CoffeeMiner Forces Coffee Shop Visitors to Mine for Monero
Bad guys can access all of the compute power connected to a particular public Wi-Fi network, all at once, to mine for cryptocurrency.
As Cloud Looms, Security Tops IT Resilience Investment
The majority of IT professionals are investing in virus protection (71%), malware protection (67%), patch management (53%), and IDP (52%).
Security Beyond The Perimeter
Whether we like it or not, the way we architect, utilize, and secure the networks and systems under our control has changed. When servers were safely tucked away behind corporate firewalls and perimeter-deployed intrusion prevention controls, organizations became complacent and dependent on their host security. Unfortunately, inadequately architected security controls that rely solely on broad […]
Carphone Warehouse Breach Results in £400K Fine
ICO forces retailer to pay up, but larger fines await with GDPR
Patch Tuesday: More Work for Admins With 56 Flaws to Fix
Scheduled updates follow last week’s out-of-band patches
FBI Boss: We Don’t Want Backdoors, but We Do Want Access to Encrypted Devices
Wray claims Feds have nearly 7800 devices they can’t access
Kali on the Windows Subsystem for Linux
Update : This post is outdated. For a better way of getting Kali Linux on Windows 10, install Kali Linux from the App store.
We’re always on the prowl for novel environments to run Kali on, and with the introduction of the Windows Subsystem for L…