RiskAnalytics Internship: The Future of Security

RiskAnalytics Internship: The Future of Security

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...

Rule of three: Patching, training and least privilege (Part 3)

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...

Rule of three: Patching, training and least privilege (Part 2)

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...
Faster than the speed of crime: the need for rapid intel sharing

Faster than the speed of crime: the need for rapid intel sharing

As of Monday September 11, RA Labs is tracking a nascent BotNet that appears to consist mostly of exploited routers. While it bears some similarity to other popular telnet “IoT” BotNets, we have not yet determined which family this one belongs to. At first, our team...
Ransomware: A long way past notes and magazine clippings

Ransomware: A long way past notes and magazine clippings

Ransomware: A long way past notes and magazine clippings I Imagine if all your data was cybernapped — held hostage until you paid a fee to free it. It may seem like some thrilling plot from a blockbuster sci-fi movie, but the truth is ransomware is very real — and...
Using fast flux to sell stolen credit cards

Using fast flux to sell stolen credit cards

Using fast flux to sell stolen credit cards Today we’re sharing another excerpt from our report about the Dark Cloud fast flux network. Some of the oldest active domains hosted on the fast flux network are carder1 sites aimed at selling stolen credit card data to...