Critical Infrastructure Beyond the Power Grid

The term "critical infrastructure" has earned its spot on the board of our ongoing game of cyber bingo--right next to "Digital Pearl Harbor," "Cyber 9/11," "SCADA" and "Stuxnet." With "critical infrastructure" thrown about in references to cyber threats nearly every week, we thought it was time f...

General Michael Hayden Talks about the Future of Cybersecurity at MIRcon 2013

When you've got some of the cybersecurity industry's best and brightest practitioners in one room, just how do you top the conversations they're having across the breakfast table? By getting one of the foremost experts on cybersecurity to deliver a top notch speech on the future of the industry,...

Relax, You Don't Have to Fix Every Vulnerability

Here’s an idea: stop fixing every vulnerability you read about. The best thing to do, it turns out, is to look at the vulnerabilities that are in both Metasploit and the Exploit Database and fix those. That gives you the highest chance of fixing bugs that are likely to be used in an actual attack...

Osama Bin Laden-Themed Phishing

Summary The intent of this advisory is to provide general guidance to public and private sector organizations and individuals on potential targeted phishing attacks often referred to as “spear phishing” with respect to the Osama Bin Laden related media reporting, and to offer some suggested metho...

Verizon DBIR 2013 Quantifies Cyberespionage Attacks

Targeted cyberespionage attacks have dominated discussions within the security community and outside of it from the mainstream media to the halls of the executive and legislative branches of government. But until now, discussions about attacks stemming from China that target intellectual property...

Old School Hackers spying on European governments

Kaspersky Lab's team of experts recently published a new research report that analyzed that Cyber criminals have targeted government officials in more than 20 countries, including Ireland and Romania with a new piece of malware called 'MiniDuke'. In a recent attack, malware has infected governmen...

How Offensive Research Drives Down the Cost of Attacks

CANCUN–The offensive security research community has evolved in the last decade or so from a relatively small and insular group inwardly focused, to a large and rather vocal group with a wide variety of motives, opinions and skill levels. But, to hear Brad Arkin of Adobe tell it, the huge amount ...

Don't Say I Never Told You: Researcher Warned Congress Of Stuxnet Variants 10 Months Ago

Stuxnet may have been super sophisticated cyber weapon deployed by state actors, but future generations of the malware will be available to run of the mill script kiddies, a noted expert on security and industrial control systems has warned in a letter to the U.S. Congress ten months ago. Ralph...

Verizon: RSA Hackers Using Trojans, Keyloggers In Second Wave Attacks

Customers of EMC’s RSA Security division that are worried about being the victim of an attack following the theft of sensitive data relating to that company’s SECURID tokens may not need to rush out and replace those tokens, according to security consulting firm Verizon Business. Efforts to stop...

U.S. Needs Cybersecurity Skunk Works, Expert Says

ARLINGTON, VA–In order to address the fundamental questions surrounding the concept of cyberwar and what it might mean for both the government and the enterprise, the United States should develop a skunk works-type think tank comprising highly skilled private-sector security experts as well as...