by Taylor Smith | Sep 24, 2018 | InfoSec Strategies
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 panels, activities, labs, and even...
by Mike Gargiullo | Jul 19, 2018 | ISMS Consulting
The 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 mainstay of EKG monitoring in...
by Terry Crowley | Jun 14, 2018 | InfoSec Strategies
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 cause great damage. In fact, I’ll...
by Mike Gargiullo | Apr 25, 2018 | InfoSec Strategies
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 could quickly rise to become “the new...
by Taylor Smith | Feb 1, 2018 | InfoSec Strategies
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 will now be utilized by cyber...
