15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2018.11.16
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. The Pentagon is Publishing Foreign Nation-State Malware (Schneier on Security, Nov 09 2018) The Pentagon has suddenly started uploading malware samples from APTs and other nation-state sources to the website VirusTotal, which is essentially a malware zoo that’s used by security pros […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2018.11.09
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Who’s In Your Online Shopping Cart? (Krebs on Security, Nov 04 2018) “Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. In Internet ages past, this […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2018.11.02
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Have Network, Need Network Security Monitoring (TaoSecurity, Oct 25 2018) We may be in a golden age of endpoint visibility, but closure of those platforms will end the endpoint’s viability as a source of security logging. So long as there are networks, […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2018.10.26
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Hackers Breach Healthcare.gov (WSJ, Oct 22 2018) The Affordable Care Act’s federal exchange system for insurance was breached and about 75,000 consumer files compromised, the Trump administration said Friday. 2. Serious SSH bug lets crooks log in just by asking nicely… (Naked Security […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2018.10.19
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View (Krebs on Security, Oct 12 2018) “Earlier this month I spoke at a cybersecurity conference in Albany, N.Y. alongside Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security and a […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2018.10.12
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. US and UK Governments Back Denial of Supermicro Story (Infosecurity Magazine, Oct 08 2018) The United States and UK authorities have joined Amazon and Apple in contesting a blockbuster story last week that Chinese spies implanted tiny chips onto supply chain components […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2018.10.05
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Facebook Security Bug Affects 90M Users (Krebs on Security, Sep 28 2018) “Facebook said today some 90 million of its users may get forcibly logged out of their accounts after the company fixed a rather glaring security vulnerability in its Web site […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2018.09.28
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Credit Freezes are Free: Let the Ice Age Begin (Krebs on Security, Sep 21 2018) “It is now free in every U.S. state to freeze and unfreeze your credit file and that of your dependents, a process that blocks identity thieves and […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2018.09.21
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. China-linked APT10 Hackers Update Attack Techniques (SecurityWeek, Sep 14 2018) As part of the new attacks, spear-phishing emails carrying malicious Word documents that attempt to deliver the UPPERCUT backdoor. Known in the security community as ANEL, the malware was apparently in pre-release […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2018.09.14
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Verizon details breaches they were called in to investigate (Help Net Security, Sep 10 2018) Each story is told from a different perspective, and from a different business sector. Each of them details the lessons learned and offers advice on detection, response, […]