IBM banning its employees from using removable storage devices, like USB sticks, received broad media coverage, even though the US CERT warned against using USB drives in 2011. Why are USB and other removal drives still relevant and why is it a good idea to not use them?
Nearly a year after the NotPetya and Wannacry attacks, ransomware is no longer used in widespread attacks against indiscriminate targets. Instead, attackers are using this malware in more focused, targeted campaigns.
Cybereason researchers have discovered new lateral movement techniques that abuse WMI. They also created a tool that lets analysts see the potential harm attackers could cause if they used these techniques.
North Korea's decision to drop the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Korean peninsula as a precondition to denuclearization changes the paradigm around the upcoming talks. This move increases the chances that the U.S. and North Korea will meet but makes no strategic sense from Kim Jong Un's perspective.
Cybereason was named Israel’s most promising startup by Calcalist, the country's leading financial newspaper.
Most films about cybersecurity over-fictionalize or idolize hackers, cyber attacks, and cyber crime. While some of our favorite movies mix action and suspense with the cyber realm, we've chosen to feature a small selection that are both authentic and entertaining.
No one likes grunt work, including attackers, who have turned to bots to automatically handle menial tasks like exploiting vulnerabilities. If exploit automation wasn’t enough of a concern for security teams, this technique has grown even more potent with attackers using bots that can automatically exploit vulnerabilities, create backdoors, dump passwords, conduct network reconnaissance, and laterally move in seconds.
Sometimes the career path to security and IT leadership doesn’t involve an undergraduate degree in computer science. Sometimes reaching the ranks of CIO and CISO involves an English degree and a desire to play rock-and-roll for a living.
Kim Jong-un is seeking to subvert the six-party talks paradigm with a hub-and-spoke model that places North Korea at the center of all negotiations.
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