All what you need to know about Cyber
Malware trends Threat actors are becoming more and more sophisticated, often making it nearly impossible for enterprises to defend against them or for end customers to identify visual indicators of compromise that could prevent the next cyber attack. Even though malware and its families are not new, there is no shortage of new payload and exploitation techniques. On the dark web, [...]
The Malware Plague Malicious software—commonly referred to as malware—is used by threat actors to perform malicious activities on a host system. These malicious activities include compromising the corporate network, identity theft, and data exfiltration. The evolution of connected devices and the fact that it has become practically impossible to run an enterprise without a computer has increased the volume of [...]
The Cybersecurity Dilemma You all know that Malware/Ransomware is a legitimate code doing illegitimate things. I we could stop a malware from executing, then there would be no problem! So , the question is: WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THESE MALWARE/RANSOMWARE TO EXECUTE/RUN? This session is all about the Cybersecurity Dilemma that we are facing today, and how we can minimize Cyber attacks... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B5R1_-TYQs To [...]
Incident response in the cloud As we've already learned, an incident is a service disruption that impacts your customers and end users, regardless of where this is—be it a mobile device or the cloud! We've also learned that incidents can come in many different forms, ranging from performance slowdowns to system crashes or difficulties reaching your server or service! When we look [...]
What is a CISO ? A CISO, or Chief Information Security Officer, is primarily responsible for an organization’s cyber security initiatives. CISOs are technologists, who can participate in high-level initiatives as business strategists. CISO's ensure that IT systems comply with security and regulatory requirements. In summary a C(I)SO is the top Cyber executive of an organization. The Role CISO requires [...]
Importance of Cybersecurity In this fast-paced industry, digitization and staying connected are playing a vital role. This is further coupled with the proliferation of cloud-based and mobile technologies. "Why focus on security?" is a question that has moved from mere security team discussions to board room discussions, and it doesn't stop there either. This, now, is the talk of the industry today. Everyone [...]
What is Social Engineering Social Engineering is, involving clever manipulation of the natural human tendencies of trust to obtain information to help facilitate fraud, network intrusion, industrial espionage, and identity theft or network/system disruption. I do like also the definition from Bruce Schneier: “Amateurs Hack Systems, Professional hack People” To gain the trust of the people Social Engineers trick their victims [...]
Kaseya VSA Breach Consequences of Security Failures The world has witnessed another large-scale cyber-attack. On July 2, 2021, Kaseya, an IT Systems Management software firm, disclosed a security incident impacting their on-premises version of Kaseya’s Virtual System Administrator (VSA) software. The result was up to 1500 companies being held hostage to a significant ransom demand. Incidents such as these are becoming more commonplace. We are [...]
Mercedes Benz AMG Data Breach I regret to inform all of you that I just received an email from Mercedes Benz AMG stating my data which is hold by them has been hacked :( I am one of the 1000 AMG victims and again on of the 1.6 million victims which is hit in the Mercedes-Benz data breach , here [...]
