Most people are either staunchly for or against the practice of governments finding and concealing zero-day exploits for use in cyber warfare or information gathering campaigns. What’s often overlooked, though, are perspectives that this issue can be a lot more gray than it … Read More
Networking Basics
Computers are a great tool and provide many perks to their users; they can perform tasks in a rather impressively fast manner, potentially offer paperless offices, and you’re … [Read More...]
Intellectual Property Theft – Are YOU at risk ?
IP theft in midsized businesses – Are YOU at risk? I’d like to focus on an important topic, which is especially relevant for midsized corporates, SMBs and distributed … [Read More...]
Your New SD-WAN Solution Could Already be in Your Network
Right now the IT industry is buzzing about software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN), and this technology isn’t just having a moment. Between pressure on IT departments … [Read More...]
Hacking for PewDiePie
In today’s episode of The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover recent news of a mass account breach at Reddit and a global DNS hijacking campaign. We then discuss in to a group of hackers attempting to convince the world to subscribe to a popular YouTube personality’s channel … [Read More...]
BGP Hijacking In a Nutshell
Recent news of BGP hijacks shows attackers are increasingly using this attack method. In WatchGuard’s 2019 security predictions, we predicted that a BGP exploit could take … [Read More...]
My Journey into the Dark Web: At Your Service
This blog expands on my previously written My Journey into the Dark Web, which can be found here. The previous post covers where to start prior to meandering on the dark web, … [Read More...]
Coinbase Delists Ethereum Classic After Attackers Steal ~$1.1M
On January 7, cryptocurrency trading portal Coinbase issued a security alert around deep chain reorganization detected on Ethereum Classic (ETC). A 51% attack against the ETC blockchain continued through January 8. In response, Coinbase has delisted ETC from its platform – … [Read More...]
Talking MFA with Roger Grimes
This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we sit down for an interview with authentication expert Roger Grimes, author of A Data-Driven Computer Security Defense. We’ll … [Read More...]
Best of 2018 Recap
What a year! Since launching The 443 – Security Simplified in June we’ve recorded over 30 episodes full of the latest news, interviews and breakdowns of complex security … [Read More...]
