My name is Whitney Champion and I'm the lead architect and one of the co-founders of Recon InfoSec. Basically I'm responsible for building and maintaining our security stack, our applications, and also our training platform: The Network Defense Range, or NDR. We're a managed security services provider, and we're based out of Austin, Texas. There are roughly 15 of us and we provide managed detection and response services and training.
With over 200% YoY Growth and used by 100,000+ Organizations globally, Slack has become an indispensable internal communication tool for teams to coordinate their activities. But when it comes to exchanging information and external sources, certain risks are at play that requires more insight and attention. Slack links to various vital systems within many organizations, making it an easy, central access point hackers can use to reach multiple systems.
In Spring 2022, Lincoln College announced that it would permanently close on May 13 and noted that a December 2021 ransomware attack had contributed to its closure.
Is cryptojacking draining your resources and exposing your organization to financial and reputation damage risk? The rise in cryptojacking, which is an illegal form of mining cryptocurrency by the unauthorized use of someone’s computing resources, has reached alarming levels. According to the Google Threat Horizon report, 86% of compromised cloud instances in 2021 were used for cryptomining. That paints the picture quite clearly.
Cryptominers are one of the main cloud threats today. Miner attacks are low risk, low effort, and high reward for a financially motivated attacker. Moreover, this kind of malware can pass unnoticed because, with proper evasive techniques, they may not disrupt a company’s business operations. Given all the possible elusive strategies, detecting cryptominers is a complex task, but machine learning could help to develop a robust detection algorithm.
Creating and running an application in your favorite language is usually pretty simple. After you create your application, deploying it and showing it to the world is also quite straightforward. The last thing you need is someone to take over your system and fully control your brand new application. In this article, I’ll explain how this can happen with a reverse shell attack. Note that the code examples in this article are for educational purposes only.
Keeper Security and Dashlane are both password management solutions that offer various user features and benefits. While Dashlane is a basic password manager with a password generator tool, Keeper is a robust, enterprise-grade solution that is only one part of a suite of cybersecurity tools covering password, secrets and connection management. Dashlane allows businesses to instantly generate and save strong passwords for all employee logins. It is supported on desktops, laptops and mobile devices.
During the last few years, we have witnessed an increase in advanced cyber attacks. Cybercriminals utilize advanced technology to breach the digital boundary and exploit enterprises’ security vulnerabilities. No industry feels secure; security professionals do their utmost to close security gaps and strengthen their cyber defense.
The proliferation of third-party software components such as open source software(OSS) has triggered a growing need to keep track of it all. Why? Because when security vulnerabilities inevitably crop up in open source components, it’s pretty important to know whether your company uses that piece of code – or whether it appears in the myriad software dependencies inherent in open source.
Privileged access management is a package of cybersecurity strategies and access management tools used for controlling, monitoring, and safeguarding users with privileged access permissions. PAM is widely regarded by analysts and IT teams as a valuable and critical cybersecurity platform, as it's able to achieve high-security ROI.
