According to a 2016 report from Small Business Trends, 43 percent of cyberattacks target small businesses. Unfortunately, once attacked, 60 percent of them close their doors within six months. The reality is that today’s startups and smaller organizations face unprecedented security challenges. But when asked, only 14 percent classify their ability to mitigate these threats as … [Read more...]
Bank Security from the Hacker’s Point of Veiw
On Thursday morning, The Next Web published an article titled How to think like a hacker, describing several security strategies employed by ABN AMRO, a bank based out of the Netherlands. Once you get past the memes and gifs, you’ll find the four strategies proposed by ABN AMRO’s security department, some of which I agree with and some of which I don’t. The first strategy … [Read more...]
Lessons from Blackhat 2016 – Investigating DDoS-as-a-Service
Last week at the Blackhat and DEFCON security conferences in Las Vegas, I had the privilege of attending several presentations by some brilliant information security researchers. My next few editorials will cover my favorite presentations and what we all can learn from them. Last Thursday at Blackhat, FBI special agent Elliot Peterson and Andre Correa, co-founder of Malware … [Read more...]