Why “Hacker” Gatherings Like DEF CON Matter for Your Business 

by Taylor Smith | Sep 24, 2018 | InfoSec Strategies

Reading Time: 2 minutes DEF CON 26, one of the world’s largest public gatherings of information security professionals and hobbyists, happened in Las Vegas on August 9-12. This event attracted over 20,000 attendees from around the globe for a weekend of...

EKG Device Hacks Underscore Growing IoT Risks in Healthcare

by Mike Gargiullo | Jul 19, 2018 | ISMS Consulting

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe US Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, ICS-CERT, just published a medical device security advisory for products from Silex Technology and GE Healthcare. These products are the...

NSA Says Hackers Stick to the Basics—Which is Why We Should, Too 

by Terry Crowley | Jun 14, 2018 | InfoSec Strategies

Reading Time: 2 minutes Speaking at the recent CyberUK conference in Manchester, Dave Hogue, senior technical director of the Cybersecurity Threat Operations Center at the NSA, flatly stated: We have sophisticated adversaries using unsophisticated means to...

Why Cryptocurrency Mining Malware is Targeting Corporate Networks—and Why You Should Care

by Mike Gargiullo | Apr 25, 2018 | InfoSec Strategies

Reading Time: 2 minutes A number of threat researchers are now reporting a massive and sustained spike of almost 500% in the volume of illicit cryptocurrency mining transactions on corporate networks. Trend Micro is hypothesizing that crypto mining...

Don’t Let Your IoT Devices Play “Hide-N-Seek” on the Most Sinister Botnet Yet

by Taylor Smith | Feb 1, 2018 | InfoSec Strategies

Reading Time: 2 minutes Security researchers at the Romanian cybersecurity and antivirus software vendor Bitdefender have spotted what looks like the most sophisticated and potentially deadly botnet yet—possibly signaling a change in how malicious botnets...