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
How a Government Shutdown Affects Cybersecurity
In today’s episode, we cover the overlooked cybersecurity ramifications of the US government shutdown. From NIST to expired certificates, we’ll discuss the government … [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
