Next year, a hacktivist organization or nation-state will launch a coordinated attack against the infrastructure of the internet. The industry already saw the impact of an attack against a critical piece of internet infrastructure when a DDoS attack against DNS … Read More
The 2019 Predictions That Didn’t Make It
Welcome back to another episode of The 443 - Security Simplified. This week in the news, we cover a supply chain attack against a popular Bitcoin wallet. For our main event, … [Read More...]
Brexit Email Tricks Users Into Downloading Malware
Recently, some individuals received emails that used Brexit to trick them into opening malicious office document attachments. The document’s authors must have been watching … [Read More...]
2019 Security Predictions – Biometrics as Single-Factor Authentication Exploited by Attackers
As biometric logins become more common, hackers will take advantage of their use as a single-factor method of authentication to pull off a major attack in … [Read More...]
What We Are Thankful For
With Thanksgiving right around the corner (or just having just passed depending on when you listen to this), we wanted to take some time and talk about the things we are thankful for in the cyber security world. Before that though, we’ll cover the latest news in breaking … [Read More...]
2019 Security Predictions – Fileless, Self-Propagating “Vaporworms” Attack
In 2019, a new breed of fileless malware will emerge, with wormlike properties that allow it to self-propagate through vulnerable systems and avoid detection. It has … [Read More...]
Our Vaporworm Prediction Arrives Early
In one of our 2019 Security Predictions, we predicted a future where self-propagating, fileless malware “vaporworms” run rampant. This week, Trend Micro announced in a blog … [Read More...]
2019 Security Predictions – A Nation-State Launches a “Fire Sales” Attack
You may remember the fictional concept of a “fire sale” attack from the fourth Die Hard movie, in which a terrorist group planned a coordinated cyber attack against U.S. transportation, financial, and public utilities and communication systems. The terrorists meant to … [Read More...]
Security Researcher Track: 101
For a security researcher and analyst, references to this position include a “white hat hacker” or an “ethical hacker,” but more commonly and probably more preferred would be … [Read More...]
How to Take the ‘Black Hat’ Out of Black Friday and Cyber Monday Shopping
Every year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday kick off the holiday shopping season, bringing about a massive wave of online sales. And as excited as we are to hunt for the best … [Read More...]
