How much should you spend on cyber defense, recovery, and insurance? A recent research study from WEIS [PDF]—a collection of cyber security researchers—analyzes the costs of cyber crime and how it has changed over the years. While the report mostly covers world e-commerce losses and how governments can combat them, it also reports cyber security trends, and their findings match … [Read more...]
New Phishing Attacks Stealing MFA Tokens Too
In the Firebox Feed, our threat intelligence feed powered by WatchGuard Firebox customers around the world, we recently came across a trending phishing campaign that uses a malicious PDF as part of its attack. Targeting mostly German users, the PDF comes attached to an email with a subject line that translates from German to "Invoice for your sales tax." Included in the email … [Read more...]
Green Mountain Grill Security Analysis
Automated smokers like the Green Mountain Grill (GMG) Davy Crockett are great for smoking different meats and other foods without having to tend the grill during the entire process. GMG has pushed this idea further with a WIFI controller that monitors and controls the grill. Now, one doesn’t even need to leave the couch to maintain the grill. Unfortunately though, this … [Read more...]
BlueKeep – Worse Than EternalBlue?
This month, Microsoft released patches for a new critical vulnerability, CVE-2019-0708 or BlueKeep, which targets Remote Desktop Services, (RDS) also called Terminal Services on Microsoft servers. Because so many organizations use RDS/RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and even expose it directly to the internet, this vulnerability could possibly cause more damage then Eternal Blue. … [Read more...]
Rubber Ducky 007
Like something out of a James Bond movie, or maybe Johnny English, she carried two passports, four cell phones, a laptop, an external hard drive and a thumb drive while trespassing at an exclusive club, one owned and visited by President Trump regularly. The women, Yujing Zhang, told security that she was going for a swim when she arrived at Mar-a-Lago in South Florida, but … [Read more...]
