Bidirectional communication via polyrhythms and shuffles: Without Jon the beat must go on

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Bidirectional communication is foundational to a well-built team regardless of environment. It's critical in information security to be able to drive a conversation up the ladder and down and not lose the critical elements. One of th...

Strategic IT Staff Augmentation: A Roadmap for C-Level Executives

By Owais Sultan Finding the Perfect IT Staff Augmentation and Staffing Services Company for Your Needs. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Strategic IT Staff Augmentation: A Roadmap for C-Level Executives...

Cybercriminals Increasingly Using EvilProxy Phishing Kit to Target Executives

Threat actors are increasingly using a phishing-as-a-service PhaaS toolkit dubbed EvilProxy to pull off account takeover attacks aimed at high-ranking executives at prominent companies. According to Proofpoint, an ongoing hybrid campaign has leveraged the service to target thousands of Microsoft...

Incident Response Services & Playbooks Guide

63% of c-level executives in the US don’t have an incident response plan yet 50% of organizations experience a cyberattack. Explore incident response services and playbooks to strengthen your cyber defenses...

Incident Response Services & Playbooks Guide

63% of c-level executives in the US don’t have an incident response plan yet 50% of organizations experience a cyberattack. Explore incident response services and playbooks to strengthen your cyber defenses...

Google Forms Set Baseline For Widespread BEC Attacks

A threat actor has been sending thousands of emails to organizations, in what researchers warn is a reconnaissance campaign to identify targets for a possible follow-up business-email-compromise BEC attack. So far, researchers have observed thousands of messages being sent to companies since...

IT Operations and Security: It’s Time to Build Something Better Together

Having been in the industry for longer than I care admit, I have seen the growth pre and post public internet. With that growth, there have been many changes with how organizations address the balance of IT Operations and Security, where tension still exists. IT Ops must keep the business running...

ThreatList: 60% of BEC Attacks Fly Under the Radar

Up to 60 percent of business email compromise BEC attacks don’t involve a malicious link, making it more difficult for employees and email security systems to spot that something is amiss, a recent report found. Researchers at Barracuda, in a new study of 3,000 BEC attacks, found that most of the...

shopify-scripts: Certain inputs cause tight C-level recursion leading to process stack overflow

Introduction ============ Certain legal Ruby programs can cause a tight recursion on the C-level without using eval while spending very little of the Ruby-level stack. This precludes triggering a Ruby stack overflow exception and eventually leads to a process stack overflow and a segfault. Both...

MIRcon Preview: Why C-Level Executives Should Attend

Security conferences come and go and most are well attended by information security practitioners for professional development and networking. But what about the executives who are responsible for strategy and who hold the budgets - what conferences should they attend? With MIRcon 2013, Nov. 5-6,...

Botnets: 2011 Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference

Botnets have become one of the most dangerous cyber threats affecting businesses today. Botnets criminals focus on the same things as most criminals: money and information. That is why these criminals are targeting payroll, human resources departments, C-level executives and senior strategists...

Ponemon survey: CEOs underestimate security risks

From Computerworld Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld – Compared to other key corporate executives, CEOs appear to underestimate the IT security risks faced by their own organizations, according to a survey of C-level executives released today by the Ponemon Institute. The Ponemon survey of 213 CEOs,...

IT staffs pressured to relax Web security

From SearchSecurity.com Rob Westervelt IT managers are under pressure from the top executives in their organizations to relax their policies on Web security in order to make users more productive. A new survey of more than 1,000 IT managers found that sales and marketing personnel also are leanin...