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 even able to play computer games…of course not during working time! Aside from these great benefits, however, how useful would they be if we typed something up, had to print it (thus negating the … [Read more...]
Why Government Vulnerability Disclosure Processes Need Private Sector Involvement
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 is black and white. Did you know that the US government actually has a process in place to assess both … [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 to deliver reliable, high-quality links for cloud applications at the core of their companies’ day-to-day operations, and industry-wide excitement about a cost-effective way to meet this demand – the market … [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 down substantial portions of the internet this year. But how could this happen? If you are unfamiliar with BGP it might make it hard to understand how someone could accidentally send traffic to one location … [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, doing so in a safer manner by utilizing a VM and the Tor browser. Following is the clarification of some buzzwords that can seem ambiguous; surface web vs. deep web vs. dark web. It then covers what the … [Read more...]
