Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at Kiwicon in Wellington, New Zealand on November 16, 2018. I'm appearing on IBM Resilient's End of Year Review webinar on "The Top Cyber Security Trends in 2018 and Predictions for the Year Ahead," December 6, 2018 at...

Friday Squid Blogging: Eating More Squid

This research paper concludes that we'll be eating more squid in the future. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

NCCIC Webinar Series on Protecting Enterprise Network Infrastructure Devices

NCCIC is conducting a series of webinars on protecting enterprise network infrastructure devices. The webinar on Thursday, October 4, 2018, is the last in the series, and will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. ET. NCCIC encourages decision makers, network defenders, and procurement analysts to register fo...

NCCIC Webinar Series on Protecting Enterprise Network Infrastructure Devices

NCCIC is conducting a series of webinars on protecting enterprise network infrastructure devices. Each webinar will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. ET on the dates listed below: Tuesday, October 2 Thursday, October 4 NCCIC encourages decision makers, network defenders, and procurement analysts to regist...

NCCIC Webinar Series on Protecting Enterprise Network Infrastructure Devices

NCCIC is conducting a series of webinars on protecting enterprise network infrastructure devices. Each webinar will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. ET on the dates listed below: Thursday, September 27 Tuesday, October 2 Thursday, October 4 NCCIC encourages decision makers, network defenders, and...

NCCIC Webinar Series on Protecting Enterprise Network Infrastructure Devices

NCCIC is conducting a series of webinars on protecting enterprise network infrastructure devices over the next two weeks. Each webinar will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. ET on the dates listed below: Monday, September 24 Thursday, September 27 Tuesday, October 2 Thursday, October 4 NCCIC encourages...

NCCIC Webinar Series on Protecting Enterprise Network Infrastructure Devices

NCCIC will conduct a series of webinars on Protecting Enterprise Network Infrastructure Devices over the next two weeks. Each webinar will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. ET on the dates listed below: Monday, September 24 Thursday, September 27 Tuesday, October 2 Thursday, October 4 NCCIC encourages...

Mobile Device Access Predicted to Surpass Desktop This Holiday Season

By Chris Wraight and Charles Choe The U.S. back-to-school shopping period is a hectic time when parents are busy purchasing items for their children such as pencils, books, electronics and new clothes; back-to-college is just as important and is now tracked separately. According to the National...

The holiday shopping surge is going global: How to keep up (and cash in)

Big promotional days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday that got their start in the U.S. are now major online shopping days for consumers around the world. Here are some tips for catering to global shoppers, and preparing for the surge of traffic to retail websites from all sources. If the 2017...

ThreatList: Ransomware Attacks Down, Fileless Malware Up in 2018

The use of fileless malware in attacks continues to grow and now represents 42 out of 1,000 endpoint attacks, according to an analysis of 2018 data by one security firm. The uptick represents a 94 percent increase in the use of fileless-based attacks between January and June 2018. The study,...

Podcast: enSilo CEO on Black Hat USA 2018 Trends

Las Vegas – Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell sits down with enSilo CEO Roy Katmor to talk about the top trends that we are seeing this week at Black Hat USA 2018 – from machine learning to connected-car security. Download here:...

Black Hat USA 2018 Preview

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals break down the biggest trends to watch out for at Black Hat USA and DEF CON 2018, which both kick off this week in Las Vegas. There is much to watch out for, including a keynote from Google’s Director of Engineering Parisa Tabriz, as...

Which specific malware trends should American businesses be prepared for?

In 2017, more than 700 million malware specimens were discovered. In this type of environment, it can be a considerable challenge for enterprises to keep up with the ever-changing threat landscape and ensure their internal protections are sufficient for safeguarding their most critical IT assets...

Carbon Black Report: 35% of IR Pros See Espionage as Primary Motive for Attackers

Fraught Geopolitical Tensions Play Out in Cyberspace In an effort to gauge the current attack landscape and to quantify the latest attack trends seen by leading IR firms, Carbon Black has introduced its Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report QIRTR. This report aggregates both qualitative and...

Zero Day Initiative: A 1H2018 Recap

When the Zero Day Initiative ZDI was formed in 2005, the cyber threat landscape was a bit different from what we see today. Threats were a little less sophisticated, but there was one thing that we saw then that we still see now: the shortage of cybersecurity professionals and researchers. The te...

ThreatList: Top Summer DDoS Trends

On Tuesday, Akamai released a report on the year’s biggest distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. The report illustrates how this time-tested attack method continues to morph and adopt new tricks, and discusses trends to watch as we move into the summer months. According to the study, Summer...

Summer SOTI - Web Attacks

Continuing Changes Welcome to the second blog post for the Summer 2018 State of the Internet / Security. If you've read the SOTI / Security report before, much of what you see here should be familiar, though the time frame we're looking at is the six months from November 2017 to April 2018, inste...

Building a Profitable Security Services Offering

Security is the number one concern of business owners today. This isn’t surprising, with all of the hacks, breaches, data thefts, ransomware attacks and privacy violations that we hear about on a daily basis. And those are just the ones we know about – according to the Online Trust Alliance’s OTA...

Sit-down with Wallarm CTO, Alex Golovko

I have had a chance to pose a few questions to Alexander Golovko, one of the co-founders of Wallarm and our CTO. Here are Alex’s reflections on Wallarm and some technology trends. How did Wallarm get its start? Ivan Wallarm’s founder has involved me in various projects on and off since 2010. By...

New State of Online Retail Performance Report Available

It's springtime, and the only people with the holidays on their minds are in the retail business. This holiday season was a record-breaking one, with combined revenue for Black Friday and Cyber Monday alone exceeding $11.5 billion. To build on that momentum, smart retailers will take a closer loo...