Sarah Maloney is a writer for the Cybereason Blog, covering all things cybersecurity. Related Posts CUCKOO SPEAR Part 1: Analyzing NOOPDOOR from an IR Perspective In this report, Cybereason confirms the ties between Cuckoo Spear and APT10 Intrusion Set by tying multiple incidents together and di...
Guests at last year’sDEFCON hacker conferencein Las Vegas were used to the NSA’s presence. The intelligence agency has been a regular fixture at the convention for years, with a steady frenemy relationship with the thousands of cybersecurity experts who visit. But last year, the NSA targete...
Zero Trust Security Explained NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, defines zero trust as an evolving set of cybersecurity paradigms that move defenses from static, network-based perimeters to a focus on users, assets, and resources. Zero trust assumes there is no implicit trus...
OpenVPN relies on the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) security protocol,which is considered the standard technology for securing Internet connections. Thanks to SSL, OpenVPN ensures your data is not transferred in plaintext. Instead, this VPN protocol encrypts your data and turns it into a scrambled ...
You may be asking yourself why anyone outside of the NSA would be interested in using a VPN. That is a valid question. The primary answer for using a VPN is privacy. The reasons for security are vast, but it comes down to not being able to trust just any old WiFi hotspot in an ai...
Brute force attacks. In these cyber security attacks, hackers gain unauthorized access to sensitive data or a system by guessing usernames and passwords. Malicious code/Malware. Any software, file, or program that is harmful to a computer user such as worms, Trojan horses, computer viruses, spy...
A leaked NSA memo and the UK's National Cyber Security Centre also reached the same conclusion. On 18 December 2017, the United States Government formally announced its belief that North Korea was behind the WannaCry attack. Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and Japan all st...
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Planning for potential data breaches is now part of any good organization'sinformation risk managementstrategy and leaders must educate their employees about the differences betweencybersecurity and information security. As the trend toward outsourcing continues andmore information moves to the digital world...
Cyber-attacks are primarily the work of a diverse array of perpetrators, ranging from state-sponsored groups to independent non-state actors. Drawing upon a warning issued by theCybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), alongside the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bur...