New Presentation Template: Incident Response Reporting for Management

Every security professional knows it’s only a matter of time before their organization is breached. And even though most security-conscious organizations have implemented procedures and products to facilitate the incident response process, many security decision-makers find much more of a challen...

Reconstructing SIGSALY

Lessons learned in reconstructing the World War II-era SIGSALY voice encryption system...

Congressional Report on the 2017 Equifax Data Breach

The US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has just released a comprehensive report on the 2017 Equifax hack. It's a great piece of writing, with a detailed timeline, root cause analysis, and lessons learned. Lance Spitzner also commented on this. Here is my...

Podcast: Breaking Down the COSCO Ransomware Attack

Last week, shipping giant COSCO China Ocean Shipping Company announced it was hit with a ransomware attack that crippled its U.S. operations. The company’s phone and email for its U.S. branch were down for five days, and have now been restored. Threatpost talks to Matt Tyrer with Commvault about...

A Look Back: Reviewing the Worst Cyber Attacks of 2017 and the Lessons Learned

It seems that each year that passes is worse than the last in terms of hacking and cyber attacks, and 2017 was no exception. "Surprising no one, 2017 was marked another 'worst year ever' in data breaches and cyber incidents around the world," said Jeff Wilbur, director of the Internet Society's...

FIN10: Anatomy of a Cyber Extortion Operation

FireEye has identified a set of financially motivated intrusion operations being carried out by a threat actor we have dubbed FIN10. FIN10 is known for compromising networks, stealing sensitive data, and directly engaging victim executives and board members in an attempt to extort them into payin...

Hack the Pentagon DOD Bug Bounty

MIAMI—Lisa Wiswell’s phone rang off the hook last summer in the throes of the OPM hack. But she wasn’t just answering questions from those whose security clearance and personal data disappeared into the Chinese ether; there were also hackers on the other end of the line offering their help...

Personal Data of 50 Million Turkish Citizens Leaked Online

Personal details of nearly 50 Million Turkish citizens, including the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have been compromised and posted online in a massive security breach. A database, which contains 49,611,709 records, appeared on the website of an Icelandic group on Monday, offering...

How to Build a Successful Incident Response Plan

The fight to protect your company’s data isn’t for the faint of heart. As an embattled IT warrior, with more systems, apps, and users to support than ever before, keeping everything up and running is a battle in itself. When it comes to preventing the worst-case scenario from happening, you need...

How I Got Here: Robert "Rsnake" Hansen

Dennis Fisher talks with Robert Hansen, a renowned security researcher, about his early days climbing telephone poles to clip into phone lines, how he got his start in the security world, the evolution of [email protected] from early webrings and what he’s learned along the way. Download: 07rsnake.mp3...

Cyber Security Fraud in the Banking Industry: Lessons Learned in OCC Examiner Training

In late October 2011, Coalfire participated in a day of IT audit training with about 35 bank examiners. As you would expect, we covered a lot of previously hot topics. The conversation changed as we started talking about the amount of fraud being realized by community banks and credit unions...

The Anatomy of the RSA Attack

The attack against RSA earlier this year has become a case study in how data breaches occur and how companies respond. In this video, Uri Rivner, Head of New Technologies, Identity Protection and Verification, at RSA discusses the attack, the aftermath and the lessons learned from it...

10 Lessons From The Pwn2Own Hacker Contest

The recent CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest saw successful hacking attacks against Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Safari and iPhone products. Now that the dust has settled and the vendors are starting to patch the vulnerabilities, Threatpost editor Ryan Naraine takes a look ...

The Cadence of Microsoft Security Patches

By Andrew Storms Every month, like clockwork, Microsoft releases security bulletins and every month people ask me if it’s small or a big release. While the exact details of the patches are generally treated as news, the expected workload each month really shouldn’t be a guessing game because...

RSA 2010: Cryptographers Discuss Wisdom of 'Foolishness'

At the RSA conference in San Francisco, a panel of leading cryptographers reveal some of the lessons they have learned while making seemingly imprudent decisions. By going against the grain, new objectives can be made and boundaries overcome...