by Jon | Jun 1, 2017 | Blog
by Noah Dunker A new variant of the WannaCry ransomware family, “WanaCrypt0r 2.0,” was discovered in the wild sometime around 8:00 AM GMT, Friday, May 12, 2017. This “worm” variant of WannaCry spreads by using a recently-fixed critical-severity Microsoft...
by Jon | Jun 1, 2017 | Blog
by Noah Dunker Last week, RA Labs noticed MS17-010 exploit attempts against production networks we’re monitoring, seemingly unrelated to the massive WannaCry outbreak two weeks ago. On Monday, May 22, we observed an active worm at one customer site. We immediately...
by Jon | Oct 6, 2016 | Blog, News
RiskAnalytics Internship: The Future of Security https://www.riskanalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/thefutureofsecurity.m4v “We’re dealing with such exceptional individuals at a young age that all of us that had interactions with the interns have come away...
by Jon | Sep 7, 2016 | Blog
Rule of three: Patching, training and least privilege (Part 3) This is the final post in our “Rule of three” series. Today’s topic is least privilege. Least privilege is a principle of access control that says no user should be granted any higher privileges than those...
by Jon | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog
Rule of three: Patching, training and least privilege (Part 2) This is the second post in our “Rule of three” series. Today we’re going to talk about training. User behavior is implicated in an estimated 60 to 80 percent of data breaches.(1) Our industry commonly...
