Gamifying machine learning for stronger security and AI models

To stay ahead of adversaries, who show no restraint in adopting tools and techniques that can help them attain their goals, Microsoft continues to harness AI and machine learning to solve security challenges. One area we’ve been experimenting on is autonomous systems. In a simulated enterprise...

Robinhood Warns Customers of Tax-Season Phishing Scams

Attackers have targeted customers of stock-trading broker Robinhood with a phishing campaign aimed to steal their credentials and spread malware using fake tax documents, the company has warned. Robinhood, which aims to make it easy for people to trade stocks online but has faced a number of...

Determining Key Shape from Sound

Its not yet very accurate or practical, but under ideal conditions it is possible to figure out the shape of a house key by listening to it being used. Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key Inference Abstract: Physical locks are one of the most prevalent mechanisms for securing...

Top Security Trends Driving Threat Detection and Response Priorities Today

The threat landscape continues to grow at a rapid pace, and organizations need security solutions that can keep up. A modern SaaS SIEM is built in the cloud, provides extended coverage across diverse data sources, and leverages automation to expedite response and containment, making it a great to...

Top MSPs challenges in 2021

If one searches for ‘the top MSP challenges’ between 2017 and 2020, there are mainly five things that are more likely to emerge from the search results: adopting cloud-based solutions, sales margins, satisfying complex client’s needs, employee turnover, and the scalability of the IT security...

General Overview of Vulnerability Management

In a world where most companies take nearly six months to detect a data breach, establishing a comprehensive and continuous process for identifying, classifying, mitigating and preventing security vulnerabilities within an organization can help prevent current cybersecurity challenges...

How to Achieve and Maintain Continuous Cloud Compliance

This blog is part of an ongoing series sharing key takeaways from Rapid7’s 2020 Cloud Security Executive Summit. Interested in participating in the next summit on Tuesday, March 9? Register here! There are two things that make data a hot topic. First, keeping track of your organization’s sheer...

Wizards 2020: Celebrating a community of innovators!

Wizards is a global ideation program that allows Akamai employees to submit their innovative ideas and contribute to the business transformation of Akamai. The program has been running for eight years and has received more than 5000 idea submissions. We are proud that Akamai products like Page...

The Pitfalls of DIY Security for Your AWS RDS Databases

AWS RDS enables easy DIY database provisioning The trend toward using Database as a Service DBaaS is unmistakable. Organizations are leveraging DBaaS flexibility to bring new products and services to market faster, or to save time and money by reducing the cost and complexity of their database...

Can security and compliance for managed database services be simple?

Actual Tech Media recently released a new entry in its Gorilla Guide series for IT professionals, focused on simplifying security and compliance for Database as a Service DBaaS. The Gorilla Guide To® Securing Database as a Service DBaaS features Imperva Cloud Data Security as a solution to help...

Top Cloud Security Challenges for 2021

Hear from Mark Nunnikhoven, VP of Cloud Research at Trend Micro, on the top cloud security challenges that will be faced in 2021...

Identity governance: The power of “Why not?”

Innovation requires the courage to take risks and the leadership skills to show others that risks are worth taking. That’s why I love working with people like Joe Dadzie, a partner group program manager in identity governance. Joe has a long history of championing disruptive technology...

The Evolution of the Qualys Cloud Platform

The global pandemic has upended everything, and in the cyber security world in particular it has highlighted the need for organizations to have a cloud-based security and compliance platform, Qualys President and Chief Product Officer Sumedh Thakar said during his keynote Monday at Qualys Securit...

Building an Open Cloud Platform

Qualys Chairman and CEO Philippe Courtot kicked off Qualys Security Conference with an assessment of current security challenges and a clear call to action on how to successfully overcome them. “Today security is front and center, and as we move to the cloud, we must rethink security,” Courtot sa...

ctfs-1

This repository contains notes and code on past CTF Capture The Flag challenges, with a focus on web, crypto, and realistic challenges. The repository is organized into several sections, each covering a different type of challenge. The web section includes write-ups on various web-based challenge...

Simplify compliance and manage risk with Microsoft Compliance Manager

The cost of non-compliance is more than twice that of compliance costs. Non-compliance with the ever-increasing and changing regulatory requirements can have a significant impact on your organizations brand, reputation, and revenue. According to a study by the Ponemon Institute and Globalscape,...

Simplify compliance and manage risk with Microsoft Compliance Manager

The cost of non-compliance is more than twice that of compliance costs. Non-compliance with the ever-increasing and changing regulatory requirements can have a significant impact on your organizations brand, reputation, and revenue. According to a study by the Ponemon Institute and Globalscape,...

h1-ctf: h1-ctf : 12 days of hack holiday writeup

Summary This was a real fun CTF and I really enjoyed solving the challenges. Great job on creating the challenges. This is my writeup for the "12 Days of Hacky Holidays CTF". I hope you enjoy reading it, and I hope others reading it will pick up a trick or two. Flags: This is all the flags found...

Happy 11th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Today marks the 11th anniversary of KrebsOnSecurity! Thank you, Dear Readers, for your continued encouragement and support! With the ongoing disruption to life and livelihood wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a fairly horrid year by most accounts. And its perhaps fitting that this w...

h1-ctf: Hacky Holidays CTF Writeup

Intro: 12 days of challenges - some more challenging than others! This holiday CTF had all 12 challenges hosted on the website https://hackyholidays.h1ctf.com/ F1129112 Challenge 1: I started by significantly overthinking all of the early challenges in this competition. When this CTF started the...