Ransomware attack exacts a heavy price
Web Application Attacks Much More Common Than Ransomware
Web app attacks accounted for 73% of all incidents flagged and affected 85% of all Alert Logic customers, compared to 2% for ransomware.
Ex-Secret Service Man Admits Laundering More Stolen Bitcoin
Shaun Bridges highlights the continued dangers posed by malicious insiders
IT Insider Helped Alleged $5m Insider Trading Scheme
DoJ charges five after bank’s tech consultant pleaded guilty
BYOD Drives Increase in Insider Threats
Dtex report claims staff negligence is key cause of breaches
Toolsmith #127: OSINT with Datasploit
I was reading an interesting Motherboard article, Legal Hacking Tools Can Be Useful for Journalists, Too, that includes reference to one of my all time OSINT favorites, Maltego. Joseph Cox’s article also mentions Datasploit, a 2016 favorite for fe…
Exploit Packages Lead to Five Million Attacks in Q2
Kaspersky Lab claims leaked exploits are causing widespread damage
Scottish Parliament Accounts Under Brute Force Attack
CEO claims weak credentials will be changed
UK Retail Data Breach Incidents Double in a Year
Stats will concern many with GDPR fines looming next year
Evading Microsoft ATA > Another reason to use 2FA for Windows Admins
Nikhil “SamratAshok” Mittal has a great series of posts on how to avoid detection by Microsoft’s Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA).
We won’t say that you shouldn’t deploy ATA to monitor your network for suspicious behavior, especially if your licensing …