Cybersecurity

The adversary’s businesses face today are nimbler and more adept at making changes to side-step attempts in stopping them. In this article, Gary explains the benefits of Cyber Threat intelligence: Cyber Threat Intelligence

New methods of attack constantly arriving have turned safeguarding IT systems into a race. Threat intelligence should automatically enable existing security technology to better repel actual threats – at least according to the promises of the providers. Unfortunately, the reality looks somewhat different; blind trust is misplaced.Check the reality of Threat intelligence in this article:…

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My name is Scott I am from Las Vegas. I am new to the forum. I have been in data sec for 14 years now and IT as a whole for 22 years. I am happy to have found this forum as most of you know there is not a lot of people who are…

When making passwords people very often tend to make it something simple to remember, which makes sense. But, in today's society a password could be critical to life changing accounts, someone could take everything you have just from the click of a button in a different country behind a computer screen. I'm emphasizing greatly that…

Apparently 5G connections can be forced to downgrade to 4G or 3G which allows for older attacks to still work based on the vulnerabilities with those standards. Currently there is also a data leakage problem with 5G. "The GSMA says that it welcomes scrutiny of the 5G standard, because it has allowed the organization to…

Another on-the-rise VPN getting recognized for it's improvements in speed/latency when compared to "traditional VPNs," is coming soon to linux distributions. " Linux network stack maintainer David Miller has committed the WireGuard VPN project into the Linux "net-next" source tree." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/wireguard-vpn-is-a-step-closer-to-mainstream-adoption/

A new VPN service is potentially going to set a trend of changing the notion of high latency generally associated with VPN use - it's called Nebula. "Nebula automatically and dynamically discovers available routes between nodes and sends traffic down the most efficient path between any two nodes rather than forcing everything through a central…

Google saves the location data from your mobile devices. Data from 2018 from a nine-hour window of time from an approximate total of 1500 phones was recovered recently by "Federal investigators" in attempt to solve somewhat old, unsolved arson cases. "The two warrants Forbes obtained together covered about nine hours' worth of activity within 29,400…

China is currently trying to take as much data as possible even though they currently are not able to read any of it, they are currently spending more than ten times what the US is spending on researching quantum security. If successful the current encrypted data that China holds will be able to be de-crypted…

new vegalocker ransomware varient attacking us health carehttps://cyware.com/news/new-vegalocker-ransomware-variant-targets-healthcare-and-it-sectors-57131ade

Article - ] https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fbi-issues-smart-tv-cybersecurity/ From this article, it states that the FBI issues warning about Smart TV and cybersecurity. It's said the Smart TV could lead as a gateway for hackers to listen to you. The FBI suggests you change your passwords and deactivate the camera and microphone feature to the Smart TV.

Article - ] https://therivardreport.com/training-cybersecurity-experts-to-combat-cybercrime/ From this article, it states that there is a shortage of cybersecurity experts that know how to tackle cybercrime head-on. So a college offers a class informing students how to tackle cybercrime. It is said that the annual salary in the area after taking the class will nearly double in income.

Article - ] https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/congress-national-privacy-law-cybersecurity.html Reading this article by slate, it states that Congress has taken upon themselves to invest in privacy, so the article proposes to look into cybersecurity. The article believes that cybercrime is overlooked by Congress. They address that Privacy and CyberSecurity is one of the same nature when it is not. Congress…

Article - ] https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2019/12/12/cyber-security-expert-gives-safety-tips-home-security-cameras/ Reading this article explains that Ring Camera is easily hack-able. The camera didn't have two-factor authentication making it very easy for the hackers to access the network. Without having a strong password makes it very easy to be targetted for cybercrime. Since the incident, it states that the family targetted from…

Article - ] https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2019/12/11/cybersecurity-incident-at-metro-atlantas-4th.html From reading this article, it explains that a cybersecurity incident was discovered at Southwire CO. LLC. Which disrupted manufacturing and shipping. In response to this incident, Southwire CO. LLC would shut down its entire network. The incident had also affected it companywide. It was believed that the incident was a Ransomware…

Article - ] https://deadline.com/2019/12/new-orleans-under-cybersecurity-attack-declares-state-of-emergency-1202809430/ This article states the mayor shuts down most of the city's computer network from a ransomware attack. It began at 5 AM on Friday which led to all employees to power down the network. An investigation is being conducted and there is no information regarding if the network will be restored.

Article - ] https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/usps-faces-cybersecurity/ In this article, lists that cybersecurity is not a strong division in the US postal system. They gathered a report over a 6 month period, which led to over a thousand investigations and over four hundred arrests. They believe it'll will be difficult to lead to the consumer's demand through internet…

In the current globalization context where some manufacturers of sensitive products don't even know all their suppliers. What is the best way to undertake supply chain risk management ? Thank you,