According to the news cyber criminals, nation states, and even our own employees are attacking our digital networks. In fact there's so much information security news each day, it's hard to keep up. If you find yourself falling behind, perhaps my weekly summary video can help. Today's episode covers, nation-state malware, booby-trapped popular web sites, dangerous pre-loaded … [Read more...]
NSA Hacks Hard Drives – Daily Security Byte EP.25
The latest advanced threat discovery uncovers nation state (possibly NSA) malware that overwrites hard drive firmware; making it extremely difficult to find or clean. Watch the video for more details. (Episode Runtime: 2:26) Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL39RZPvLS0 EPISODE REFERENCES: Kaspersky’s blog post on the Equation Group (EG) - Kaspersky More … [Read more...]
2015 InfoSec Trends You Should and Shouldn’t Worry About
We're rushing headlong into the end of the year, which means it's that time again—time to pull out my crystal ball for WatchGuard's annual security predictions. We actually already released next year's security predictions last week. You can read our press release about them (which includes a shortened version of the predictions) or check out this cool and … [Read more...]
Sony Breach & More – WSWiR Episode 131
Operation Cleaver, FIN4, Regin, and Sony Breach Now that cyber attacks have gone primetime, every week is filled with new information security (infosec) news, leaving administrators little time to catch up. If you're falling behind, let our weekly video summarize the biggest security news for you. No vacation goes unpunished. Unfortunately, skipping last week's video due to … [Read more...]
Ebay Pwned – WSWiR Episode 108
Ebay Data Breach, IE8 0Day, and Alleged Chinese Hackers With all the information security (InfoSec) news coming out each week, it's hard to believe anyone can keep up with it; let alone an already busy IT professional with other things on his plate. If that sounds like you, rather than worrying about finding the most important security news you can let my weekly summary video … [Read more...]