Cybersecurity
Palo Alto Networks XSOAR Integration: Maximizing Automation for Incident Detection and Remediation
Automation is becoming more and more prevalent and sought after by Security Operations Centers (SOC). This is driven by the increasing cybersecurity skills gap, intensified by the volume of security data and ...
Five worthy reads: Hyperscale: The path ahead for data centers and organizations
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this edition, we’ll learn about hyperscale data centers, including how they function, ...
The Targeting of the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain
The world has waited for 10 months for the good news that arrived this week—the first inoculations of the COVID-19 vaccine would be given in the UK within days. Those same 10 ...
Egregor Ransomware Strikes Metro Vancouver’s TransLink
The Egregor ransomware gang struck TransLink, the authority responsible for managing Metro Vancouver’s transportation network. On December 1, TransLink announced that certain issues were affecting its phones, online services and payment systems ...
Supreme Court Reviews CFAA | Avast
A 34-year-old hacking law called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) sits at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing where the defense insists the law was too vaguely written ...
Why Hackers Love the Pandemic
The novel coronavirus pandemic has been a boon for cybercriminals seeking profit amid chaos. Tanium’s special report of 1,000 chief executives and VPs revealed that 90% of enterprises surveyed experienced an increase ...
DEF CON 28 Safe Mode Aerospace Village – Matt Murray’s ‘Satellite Orbits 101’
Many thanks to DEF CON and Conference Speakers for publishing their outstanding presentations; of which, originally appeared at the organization's DEFCON 28 SAFE MODE Conference, and on the DEF CON YouTube channel ...
Solving the November 13th Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge
Overview Each week on Friday, we post a social media challenge known as “Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge”. On November 13th of 2020, we released a challenge that contained a payload and it ...
The Joy of Tech® ‘Conversational Safety!’
via the Comic Noggins of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech®! Permalink ...
Open Source Does Not Equal Secure
Way back in 1999, I wrote about open-source software: First, simply publishing the code does not automatically mean that people will examine it for security flaws. Security researchers are fickle and busy ...
