Is it Easier to Turn Cloud Professionals into Security Practitioners or Vice Versa?

Insights into the cybersecurity skills gap In a poll taken at a recent Imperva webinar, What’s New in ‘22? Cybersecurity Trends and Predictions, participants said it’s easier to turn security practitioners into cloud professionals by a margin of 65-35. Three Directors in Imperva’s Office of the C...

New research shows IoT and OT innovation is critical to business but comes with significant risks

The need for much improved IoT and operational technology OT cybersecurity became clearer this year with recent attacks on network devices,1 surveillance systems,2 an oil pipeline,3 and a water treatment facility,4 to name a few examples. To better understand the challenges customers are facing,...

Kunyu - More Efficient Corporate Asset Collection

Kunyu, More Efficient Corporate Asset Collection 0x00 Introduce Tool introduction Kunyu kunyu, whose name is taken from , is actually a professional subject related to geographic information, which counts the geographic information of the sea, land, and sky. The same applies to cyberspace. The sa...

Attack AI systems in Machine Learning Evasion Competition

Today, we are launching MLSEC.IO, an educational Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition MLSEC for the AI and security communities to exercise their muscle to attack critical AI systems in a realistic setting. Hosted and sponsored by Microsoft, alongside NVIDIA, CUJO AI, VM-Ray, and MRG...

Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of Indicted APT40 Actors Associated with China’s MSS Hainan State Security Department

Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was written by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA to provide information on a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat APT group known in open-source reporting as APT40. This advisory provides...

The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Widening the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

While there are undoubtedly many major challenges within the world of cybersecurity, one of the principal roadblocks to the implementation of effective data security is the lack of skilled cybersecurity practitioners. In a November 2019 report, the International Information System Security...

Microsoft Security—detecting empires in the cloud

Microsoft consistently tracks the most advanced threat actors and evolving attack techniques. We use these findings to harden our products and platform and share them with the security community to help defenders everywhere better protect the planet. Recently, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence...

Rethinking cyber scenarios—learning (and training) as you defend

In two recent posts I discussed with Circadence the increasing importance of gamification for cybersecurity learning and how to get started as a practitioner while being supported by an enterprise learning officer or security team lead. In this third and final post in the series, Keenan and I...

NCSC-NZ Releases Cyber Governance Resource for Leaders

The New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-NZ has released an article on a new cybersecurity governance resource to support public and private sector leaders in making decisions about their cybersecurity resilience and risk. NCSC-NZ developed this governance—a series of documents with...

Takeaways from GAM 2018: Internal Audit Embraces Cybersecurity

Last week, the Institute of Internal Auditors IIA held its 2018 Global Audit Management Conference at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas. With over 1,700 attendees, this was the most well-attended event in the history of the conference. Coalfire was one of the sponsors, and we were delighted to meet wi...

Actionable Vulnerability Remediation Projects in InsightVM

Security practitioners and the remediating teams they collaborate with are increasingly asked to do more with less. They simply cannot remediate everything; it has never been more important to prioritize and drive remediations from start to finish. The Remediation Workflow capability in InsightVM...

Windows Forensic Data Collection: IR-rescue

Windows Forensic Data Collection ir-rescue is a Windows Batch script that collects a myriad of forensic data from 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems while respecting the order of volatility. It is intended for incident response use at different stages in the analysis and investigation process. It...

The industry's conscience: BlackBerry can bypass operators to offer Android security patches-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Each Android phone manufacturer managed to every month on time security updates, but they face a big problem: security updates usually need to obtain the operator's approval, which means that before the update need to wait a few weeks. However, BlackBerry select uncompromising. BlackBerry company...

DevOps Integration Key to Avoiding Pre-Ordained Security Failures

BOSTON – Downstream is where you live today as a security person. If Gene Kim has his way, you’ll be inline soon enough. Kim’s keynote today at Source Boston 2013 took listeners on a deep dive of the integration of development and IT operations and helped map out how organizations may be able to...

Poll Finds Security Practitioners Falsely Believe They're Protected Against APTs

If a recent poll of 1,000 security professionals is any indication, there remains a significant learning gap in understanding advanced persistent threats – and therefore building a strong defense to resist them. The survey conducted by FireEye’s Malware Intelligence Lab showed nearly 60 percent o...

Armitage Update : Graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit

Armitage Update : Graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit Armitage is a graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit that visualizes your targets, recommends exploits, and exposes the advanced capabilities of the framework. Armitage aims to make Metasploit usable for securi...

Armitage : Cyber Attack Management for Metasploit tool !

Armitage is a graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit that visualizes your targets, recommends exploits, and exposes the advanced capabilities of the framework. Armitage aims to make Metasploit usable for security practitioners who understand hacking but don't use Metasploit every...

ToorCon

San Diego, California, U.S. Southern California’s premiere hacking event, ToorCon is in its 12th year, after being launched by San Diego area 2600 user group members David Hulton aka h1kari and Ben Greenberg in 1999. No industry event, ToorCon is for serious security practitioners, offering...

RSA 2009: 'History Repeats Itself'

I am very excited to be guest blogging about RSA here on Threatpost. A special thank you to Dennis and Ryan for the privilege. I am also very excited to once again be speaking at RSA this year. Last year, I was on a panel with Mike Rothman, Rich Mogull, Martin McKeay and Ron Woerner titled...

Ten IE browser settings for safer surfing

By Bill Brenner, CSO Ask a room full of security practitioners for a list of security settings that’ll make Internet Explorer IE safe to use and you’ll either hear laughter or advice to get a new browser like Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari or Google Chrome. Even as Microsoft has worked diligently...